Parallel Port not detected: printing problem

[fifomonday]

1) Using Redhat 6.1 and porttools, when I select "Local Printer" and then "OK" in the "Add a Printer Entry" window, it returns with: Autodetection found the following: /dev/lp0, lp1, lp2 Not detected.

2) I read that the output list from "cat /proc/devices" should include lp. It doesn't

3) The output from "ls > /etc /lp0" or "ls>/etc /lp1" is No such device.

4) I read that Linux may not detect parallel ports with PnP. I have booted with PNP enabled and disabled in the BOIS.

Help please! How do I detect my parallel port?

[Luthor]

You probably already did this but just in case, make sure it is enabled correctly in the BIOS.



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Luthor St. James
(aka [AcK]BillTheCat)

[WCox]

Add this line to your conf.modules or modules.conf file:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

Hope this helps.

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Hello from Kansas: Using Linux (Slackware) since May 1999.

[The King Ant]

You haven't compiled your own kernel, have you? Parallel support is part of the kernel, and in every distribution I know if, it's included by default. I would double check your BIOS to make sure it's not disabled.

Also, "cd /dev ; ls -la | grep -i lp" and make sure that lp0 is actually there. If not, you might have to make it. I'm not really sure how, but I think it's something like "/dev/MAKEDEV /dev/lp0"

Also, make sure the lp daemon is running. It wouldn't fix your problem, but it can't help. "/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart"

[fifomonday]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by WCox:
[B]Add this line to your conf.modules or modules.conf file:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

Hope this helps.
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Thx a bunch - this worked.