From mike@boobaz.net Wed Jan 2 11:46:30 2002 Received: from mailscan2.cac.washington.edu (mailscan2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id g02JkRn37028 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:46:27 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan2.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Jan 02 11:46:26 2002 -0800 Received: from boobaz.net (12-228-57-109.client.attbi.com [12.228.57.109]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g02JkQm1020620 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:46:26 -0800 Received: from base-ext (base-ext [12.228.57.109]) by boobaz.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g02JkP811446 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:46:26 -0800 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 11:46:25 -0800 (PST) From: "M. Hornung" X-X-Sender: To: UW Linux Group Subject: Re: Left to own devices. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Are you running a stock kernel or have you rolled your own? If you've made your own, perhaps you didn't include parallel port support? Maybe you need to 'modprobe parport' before it'll know how to talk to your parallel port (that 25 pin thingy on your mobo). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=- http://www.boobaz.net/key.html 81CE 668E BC9D EDFE 08ED D8D7 84A7 4F32 54C2 68F8 On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 at 11:16, 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. | | | | | .