Re: Missing parallel port
Charles Radding wrote:
>
> Print spoolers (I have tried CUPS and now lprng) cannot find my parallel
> port. It's there; Windows knows about it; the kernel detects it, whether the
> parallel port is built in or a module, whether the kernel is 2.2.18 or 2.4.2;
This stuff has changed under kernel 2.2, and it's a bit confusing. You
not only need parport.o, but parport_pc.o and lp.o (if you're using
modules). If you're doing 'make menuconfig' to configure the kernel,
do:
General setup => Parallel port support & PC-Style Hardware
Character devices => Parallel printer support
Basically, I guess the kernel has to know there *is* a parallel port,
it's a PC-style one, and there's a printer on it.
> e.g. from dmesg
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
>
> But no luck on actually communicating through it with the printer. In linux,
> that is; Windows has no trouble.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Charles Radding
>
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