I've successfully installed VMware Server 1.0.2-39867 on my Etch machine (as
host) with the help of the any-any-update109 patch. To print to my parallel
printer, the VMware virtual machine needs the ppdev and parport_pc modules
loaded in Linux, and they are. It also requires that the lp module not be
loaded. (This is all in the VMware manual.) When I set all that up, the
virtual machine prints fine.
I have a problem, though, because I have Linux programs I like that print to
/dev/lp0 and require the lp module to be loaded. So now they fail. I
thought I might just recompile them to use /dev/parport0, but that failed. I
can copy the console to /dev/lp0 and see it print (if lp is loaded). But
when I try "cat > /dev/parport0", I get
cat: write error: Invalid argument
with or without lp loaded.
Should I be able to copy to /dev/parport0? If not, how can I copy to the
parallel port without having lp loaded?
A minor question is also how lp gets loaded. It's now in /etc/modules.conf.
Thanks. My kernel is 2.6.18-4-686.
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