🚀 go-pugleaf

drf03@uow.edu.au (Daniel Robert Franklin) writes:

> Rado Faletic <Rado.Faletic@anu.edu.au> writes:
> 
> >Hi,
> 
> >I've been trying to get my printer happening, but for some reason
> >/dev/lp* is not registering with the system. When I first installed
> >RH5.2 it worked, but since I've played with the kernel it's disappeared.
> >In the kernel builds I've included parallel port options.
> 
> Did you include support for _both_ parallel port and parallel printer
> support? It's under General Setup. You should also enable "PC-style
> hardware" which will appear when you select "Parallel port support".
> 
I found that I needed to add the necessary modprobe's into
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules as the entries in /etc/conf.modules didn't seem
to work.

my rc.modules says:

..
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc io=0x278 irq=auto
modprobe parport_probe
modprobe lp

Note that your io= setting may be different depending on which printer 
port your printer is connected to.

I should try executing the modprobes from a root shell with your
printer switched on and then have a look in /proc/parport - if all is
well you should have a directory /proc/parport/0 containing files:
autoprobe  devices  hardware  irq

If your printer supports IEEE1284, autoprobe should contain something
like:

CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:EPL-5700;
MANUFACTURER:EPSON;
COMMAND SET:PJL,EJL,ESCPL2-00,ESCP9-84,...

HTH

Jim