Yes, I enabled support for PC-styled hardware when I recompiled the kernel with modular support for the parallel port. I successfully used modconf to insert the modules
parport and parport_pc If I do an lsmod I get debian:~# lsmod Module Size Used by parport_pc 5528 0 (unused) parport 6612 0 [parport_pc] tulip 23396 1 sb 31924 0 (unused) uart401 5628 0 [sb] sound 55048 0 [sb uart401] soundcore 2196 6 [sb sound] I check /var/log/messages and I see Sep 10 01:57:57 debian kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP] but I see no lp0 as I see on my Slackware box in its /var/log/messages What am I missing here? brian On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 09:44:47AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:12:08AM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote: > > debian:/usr/src/linux# echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0 > > bash: /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device > > When you recompiled the kernel with parport support, did you also enable the > `Support for PC-style hardware' (or something like that, the name is > CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and `Parallel printer support' (CONFIG_PRINTER) and make > sure the corresponding modules are loaded (they will if you chose kmod > support, but make sure with lsmod). This might not be your problem, but better > make sure of this before starting to dig further. > > -Lex -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/
