[linux-help] Re: Printer on Red Hat 6.2

[Bruce Bales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Printer and computer worked fine (at least for text) until I replaced 
Mandrake7.1 with Redhat 6.2.

I found last night that the Mandrake system behind me has five lines in dmesg 
that are not in the RH
system.  They look significant:
    parport0: PC style at 0x378, using IRQ3
    parport_probe: succeeded
    parport0: Printer, canon BJC-4100
    lp0: using parport0 (polling)
    lp0 offline

Any ideas?

By the way, a capital tilde N has to be pretty useless - not many words start 
with tilde N.
bruce

Lowell wrote:

> Bruce Bales wrote:
> >
> > Lowell, the third line below is already in conf.modules, so apparently they 
> > added it to RH6.2.  I
> > added the other 2 lines (although I don't know what devfs means) and no 
> > help.  Rebooted and checked
> > bios for mention of parallel port pnp in bios setup - no mention.  
> > Interesting that when the bios
> > edit first came up, the printer became active and printed one character (~ 
> > on top of N).
> >
> > These are the three lines you referred me to.
> >
> >         alias /dev/printers lp             # only for devfs?
> >         alias /dev/lp*      lp             # only for devfs?
> >         alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc  # missing in Red Hat 6.0-6.1
> >
> > bruce
>
>                 Hrmmm...? Just one character?and that a
>                 tilde'ed n? Has this printer (or computer)
>                 ever been south of the border?
>                 Seriously, this might have been the printer's
>                 own idea, but, if not, then, is this the first
>                 signal the printer has received from the com-
>                 puter? Bad thought, huh?
> --
> "Nothing is foolproof to a
>    sufficiently talented fool!"
>
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