Re: Printing Broken After Upgrade to 2.2.10 Kernel on slink

[Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@atl.mediaone.net>]

Brian Servis wrote:
> 
> >From the Documentation/Changes file in the 2.2.x kernel tree:
> 
> Parallel Ports
> ==============
> 
>    As of 2.1.33, parallel port support can now by handled by the parport
> driver.  Be aware that with Plug-and-Play support turned on, your
> parallel port may no longer be where you expect it; for example, LPT1
> (under DOS) was sometimes /dev/lp1 in Linux, but will probably be
> /dev/lp0 with the new Plug-and-Play driver.  If printing breaks with
> the new driver, try checking your lpd configuration.  A good source of
> more information is the Documentation/parport.txt file included with
> the kernel.
> 
> --
> Brian
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> Mechanical Engineering                              servis@purdue.edu
> Purdue University                   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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Thanks to everyone who replied.  I had always wondered why the
parallel ports started at 1--it's good to see that they've made
it consistent with numbering of other device types.

- Kris