Re: Printer Port Problem..

[Bill Schoolcraft <bill wiliweld com>]

Patrick Dunn wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Under RH 6.0 printtool will detect the printer port fine but under RH
> 6.1 it will not.  However I can print to the printer under Windows 98.
> The only thing that changed is the IRQ for SCSI card was moved from 10
> to 11 but the printer port IRQ is still 7 and under /proc/interrupts it
> did not detect it.
> 
> Also I did upgrade the LPR package from RH's errata.  Anybody else run
> into this?  I think I may have a hardware conflict or perhaps a loose
> cable the more I think about it since when I reinstalled windows 98 it
> did not pick up on the printer but in a previous installation it did as
> soon as the install was done so I'll check that possibility too, but I
> figured I would throw this out there to see if anyone else has the
> problem
> 
> Thanks!
> Pat

I found I had to add the following line to /etc/conf.modules and make
sure the printer daemon was in fact running: 

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

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