Re: Amiga parallel port printing 2.4.20 kernel

[lancetag@luminet.net (Lance Tagliapietra)]

Hi Geert,

I did finally figure out this problem.  It seems that under the 2.2.x
kernels, the parallel port device driver will be loaded automatically
when the device is first used (hence it did not show up in the dmesg
listing).

For the 2.4.20 kernel I had to add the the lp and parallel port
drivers to the /etc/modules file.

Your hint about the parallel port driver not appearing in dmesg
didn't make sense with respect to what I was used to with the
2.2.x kernels.

That, and a reboot, and my printer started printing the files that
were in the queue.

--Lance

> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Lance Tagliapietra wrote:
> > Has anyone else observed printing from the parallel port not working
> > on Linux m68k kernel 2.4.20 for the Amiga?  I booted back into 2.2.20
> > to test and parallel port printing works there.
> > 
> > lpq indicates that the printer is offline when I can see that it
> > is online. The printer is an HP deskjet.  I also get an error
> > when I try cp file /dev/lp0 which also works under 2.2.20 kernel.
> > 
> > My dmesg can be found at http://www.luminet.net/~lancetag/dmesg
> 
> I don't see any messages from the parallel port driver?
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                                               Geert
> 
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
> 
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