[ILUG] RH 6.1 printer problem

[Lars Hecking]

>    Grepping through the kernel source, I find no indication that such a
>    module actually exists, and it certainly isn't under /lib/modules.
> 
> parport_lowlevel is a symbolic name to represent the appropriate
> parport_? module. You need to alias it to parport_pc in conf.modules. 
>   
> then a modprobe parport_pc should bring it all up.
 
 It does something, bt still doesn't work:

Mar  2 14:21:17 xxxxxx lpd: lpd startup succeeded
Mar  2 14:21:27 xxxxxx kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
Mar  2 14:21:28 xxxxxx kernel: parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 850C
Mar  2 14:21:39 xxxxxx lpd: lpd shutdown succeeded
-> Mar  2 14:21:39 xxxxxx lpd[1154]: lp: no line printer device or host name

 Why is this?

 printtool still says that it can't find /dev/lp[012].

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
parport_pc              5588   0 
parport_probe           2980   0  (autoclean)
lp                      5052   0  (autoclean) (unused)
parport                 7060   0  (autoclean) [parport_pc parport_probe lp]
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