On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:05:15AM +0200, Wayne Gemmell wrote: [...] | Now for me dmesg shows | | parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)] | lp0: using parport0 (polling). | ppdev: user-space parallel port driver | | I've missed something I think, any ideas?? What indication do you have that your parport isn't working? All you need is to load the parport parport_pc lp modules and the parallel port will work. To test it, dump some data to /dev/lp0 and you should see the printer react. If the printer can handle ASCII input directly you should see it print[1]. For example, # echo -ne 'Hello World\n\f' >> /dev/lp0 HTH, -D [1] All non-Apple laser printers I've seen and old "line" printers can handle ASCII text directly. Apple Laserwriters can only handle Postscript. Many (low-end) inkjets made in the past few years can only handle propietary, binary, data streams. -- "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." --Jim Elliot http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/
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