From rowdenw@eskimo.com Wed Jan 2 11:16:37 2002 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id g02JGan43232 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:36 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Jan 02 11:16:35 2002 -0800 Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g02JGWm1013326 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:33 -0800 Received: from eskimo.com (rowdenw@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mx1.eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15521 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:30 -0800 Received: from localhost (rowdenw@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA10286 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:30 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: rowdenw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:16:29 -0800 (PST) From: William Rowden To: UW Linux Group Subject: Left to own devices. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm doing my part to increase mailing list traffic. :) Where's my printer port? The motherboard has a connection to a 25-pin port on the back--with a picture of a printer. Linux (RH 7.2), however, doesn't appear to recognize this. There are no "lp" messages in "/var/log/dmesg". (Admittedly, I didn't set up printers during the intallation.) Writing to any of the four (0-3) "/dev/lp?" devices produces errors such as "bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address". The device appears loaded, however: [root@hurston dev]# grep lp /proc/devices 6 lp Does anyone have an idea of what to try next? What are these "/dev/par?" and "/dev/parport?" devices? -- -William You don't need a patch on your arm to have honor. .