Re: Printer-device configuration problems

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:32:35 -0400


Tim Waugh wrote:
> If you only have one parallel port, which I think is what you've
> described, then you can expect /dev/lp0 to be the right device. To make
> sure, you could try booting with:
>
> parport=0x378 lp=parport0
>
> on the kernel command line. (Or something like that - check
> Documentation/parport.txt and drivers/char/lp.c.)

No joy.

I guess the thing to do next is to hack the port address to the standard
lp0 value in NVRAM and see if that helps.

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