[Sussex] Printers and Gentoo (again)

[Stephen Williams]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 02:20 +0000, John D. wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 23:04 +0000, Stephen Williams wrote:
> 
> > Have a look for /dev/par0 - 2 for parallel printer port devices.
> > 
> > Have a look in dmesg for the following to see if parallel support is
> > compiled into your kernel;
> > 
> > lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> > ...
> > 
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
> > lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> > ....
> 

You haven't disabled your parallel port in your BIOS have you?

Steve W.

> Nope, I can't find any of that either.
> 
> And on Sun, 28 Nov 2004 at 23:09 (GMT), John Crowhurst wrote:
> 
> >Look in /dev for /dev/lp0. If you are using devfs, then it could be in
> >/dev/lp/0.
> 
> >Perhaps you've not configured the /etc/printcap to show where the
> >printer is connected.
> 
> I also partly looked into those suggestions John (well I haven't checked
> the doc's yet), but theres no sign of anything and the system doesn't
> seem to have a file called /etc/printcap
> 
> Weird? you'd have thought it would have at least seen that the inkjet is
> connected via the parallel port?
> 
> regards
> 
> John D.
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