From rowdenw@eskimo.com Wed Jan 2 12:23:18 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 g02KNHn151778 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:17 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Jan 02 12:23:16 2002 -0800 Received: from mx1.eskimo.com (mx1.eskimo.com [204.122.16.48]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g02KND3F019181 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:14 -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 MAA22410 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (rowdenw@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA13751 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:10 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: eskimo.com: rowdenw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 12:23:10 -0800 (PST) From: William Rowden 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 Today, Bradley Bell wrote: > One possibility: make sure it's not turned off in the bios. Won't that require rebooting? I've been boasting to my coworker that rebooting is unnecessary when repartitioning a hard drive under Linux, whereas changing the font in Windoze requires it. :) Today, Jing Su wrote: > I use RH's 'printtool' (or similarly named) to set up printers > and stuff. Of course, I'm assuming you want a printer versus > some other parallel port device. It's a printer I want, and I tried "printconf-gui" before writing the list. It showed no devices, even when I selected "Rescan Devices", so I tried each "/dev/lp?" as a "Custom Device". > Are you sure that the printer port module is loaded? How would I tell? Is this related to M. Hornung's suggestion?: Today, M. Hornung wrote: > Are you running a stock kernel or have you rolled your own? I haven't changed the kernel from the installed version. > Maybe you need to 'modprobe parport' before it'll know how to > talk to your parallel port (that 25 pin thingy on your mobo). Running `modprobe parport` doesn't appear to have any effect. > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 at 11:16, William Rowden wrote: [snip] >| 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: -- -William Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything. .