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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:24:26 -0800
From: Bradley Bell <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>
To: linux@u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: Left to own devices.
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One possibility:  make sure it's not turned off in the bios.

-brad

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:16:29AM -0800, William Rowden wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Bradley Bell
Computer Support Analyst
University of Washington
Classroom Support Services
.