No Printer

["Lee Smith" <leesmith darkstormy com>]

My computer is a dedicated Linux machine which I purchased from 
TigerDirect already set up. Riiiiight. By the way for those of you 
who have purchased one of these who have been circling your 
brand new TigerDirect machine wondering, reading everything they 
sent you, the root password is tigerdirect. 

I know nothing about Linux (well I've learned a tiny bit.) the 
information sheets and HOW TWOs rarely give me the information 
I'm looking for. I understand that it's hard for the writer to visualize a 
time when he didn't understand about IPs atd lpd hda etc etc etc. 
It's truly not easy, I'm a writer myself.

Anyway. Linux, printtool does not recognize *any* printer port. not 
lp0, lp1, lp2. See, I've learned a little.

I've gone into the bios information and turned of all PnP recognition. 
Nothing, No difference.

BUT the hardware is there and the pathways to it established 
because I can boot the machine up on a DOS floppy and print to 
the printer without a problem.

The bios information that flits up the screen on start-up says that 
there is a parallel port at 0378h. DOS MSD says that I have a 
parallel port node, ECP, IRQ 7, 378h, DMA 3.

How can I make Linux see what's there so that I can get on with 
my life. If I keep playing with things, sooner or later I'm going to 
break my fourth installation of Linux (three on another machine 
which I have since scrapped). Now it says that atd (whatever that 
is) FAILED to shut down. Probably something I fiddled with.

Thanks

Lee.
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