Re: reporting bug

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:48:29 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, romain bossart wrote:

> [1.] parallel port not recognized
> [2.] the module parport is loaded but /dev/lp* are not recognized
> althought other versions of kernel do recognize it (in printtool of
> redhat for example)

Your parallel port is now /dev/lp0, whereas on 2.0 it was /dev/lp1. That
could be the problem.

Also, you need to have something like

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc

in your /etc/conf.modules.

If this doesn't work, try this patch:
<URL:ftp://ftp.torque.net/pub/parport/patch-2.2.0-parportpc>.

Tim.
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