[ILUG] Paralell port on Red Hat 6.1

[Kenn Humborg]

On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 03:25:34PM -0800, trevor prendergast wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble after installing Red Hat 6.1. When
> I use print tool to set up my HP DeskJet 670C, it
> tells me that the paralell port is not detected (it
> actually tells me that lp0, lp1 and lp2 are not
> detected). The printer works fine under Windowze and
> did work fine under Red Hat 5.2 and Star Office. Doing
> and ls -l on /dev/lp0 shows it is there.

Hmmm...  That's pretty odd.  AFAIK, parallel port detection
at boot time is via I/O address only.  So it looks like your
parallel port is either disabled (via BIOS or jumper) or is
living at a strange address.

Type dmesg and let us see the output.

Also, take a look at the device settings in Windows' Device
Manager on 9x (I can't remember where it is on NT) and see
if you can find out what I/O address and IRQ windows is
using for it.

Once we know that, we might be able to provide a magic 
incantation that tells the Linux kernel where to find it.

Later,
Kenn