[aclug-L] Re: RH 6.1 Printer problems

[ahughes <ahughes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently installed RH6.1, too. It took me days to get the printers (I
have two ports, too) working. What I did, finally, was to put the
following line in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local: /sbin/modprobe parport_pc

When I played aroud and tried to load it with parameters I could only
access one port or the other. This worked for me - I don't know if it is
the correct or best way.

Good luck,
Ann

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Mike McNown wrote:

> I am needing some information on printer port identification problems.  I 
> recently installed RH 6.1 and it would not recognize the two parallel ports 
> I have.  I asked RH support and finally received the answer that I needed 
> to add 'alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc' to my /etc/conf.modules.  Well I 
> did and it worked for the first port (lp0)!  Does anybody understand what 
> this string is doing and how I can maybe modify it so it will recognize the 
> second port?
> 
> 
> Mike McNown
> mdm@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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