Re: printing problem
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 01:56:40AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> Yes,
>
> I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel
> with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf
> to insert the modules
>
> parport
> and
> parport_pc
>
> If I do an lsmod I get
>
> debian:~# lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> parport_pc 5528 0 (unused)
> parport 6612 0 [parport_pc]
> tulip 23396 1
> sb 31924 0 (unused)
> uart401 5628 0 [sb]
> sound 55048 0 [sb uart401]
> soundcore 2196 6 [sb sound]
>
> I check /var/log/messages and I see
>
> Sep 10 01:57:57 debian kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
>
> but I see no lp0 as I see on my Slackware box in its /var/log/messages
>
> What am I missing here?
lp module is missing. I have in my /etc/modutils/aliases:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
and
$ uname -a
Linux mirek 2.2.12 #1 Mon Aug 30 18:01:45 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
loop 7680 2 (autoclean)
dmsdos 148332 1
parport_probe 3076 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 5748 1 (autoclean)
lp 5180 0 (autoclean)
parport 7508 1 (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
sb 34452 1 (autoclean)
uart401 6128 1 (autoclean) [sb]
sound 57996 0 (autoclean) [sb uart401]
soundcore 2564 6 (autoclean) [sb sound]
nls_cp437 3580 10 (autoclean)
msdos 5468 10 (autoclean)
fat 30112 10 (autoclean) [dmsdos msdos]
autofs 9252 1 (autoclean)
tulip 24932 1 (autoclean)
serial 24548 2 (autoclean)
I think you should (?) enable also in kernel configuration
Plug and Play support ---> Auto-probe for parallel devices
Mirek
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