Just a thought - have you guys made absolutely sure that your ports are set up
correctly and enabled? I was having problems with a printer port under RH 6.1
that had worked fine under 5.2. For some reason, the BIOS setting for the port
was "auto" instead of IRQ 7, iobase 0x378. That was the first step. Then I
rummaged through all of the messages on this list and checked out the RH sight
under support.
good luck,
Jeff
Manuel Camacho wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an inter 440BX-2 MB and RH 6.0 does not recognize my parallel ports
> either.
>
> I *guess* it has to do with the USB architecture. I am waiting for 6.2 to
> upgrade and see what happens.
>
> If anyone knows how to fix the problem, please let know.
>
> TIA
>
> -Manuel.
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Rohan Parkes wrote:
> > After having installed Red Hat 6.1, I find that my modem and printer ports
> > are not working. I can't work out if it's the same problem affecting both,
> > however. The printer port LP1 appears to be not detected - the
> > configuration panel doesn't appear during installation, and if I use the
> > test options in Printtool, I variously get messages like "there is no device
> > at /dev/lp0" and "the lp daemon cannot start" (which I gather really means
> > it can't detect the printer). I've done all the configuration I can. The
> > printer is an Epson Stylus 500.
> >
> > I notice there seems to be a lot of postings about this on the Lixux
> > newsgroup. Replies often state that there is a known bug in 6.1 which
> > affects printing. However, I tried installing 6.0 instead, with no success.
> >
> > The standard responses to the problem are to either upgrade the modutils rpm
> > (I tried this, and ended up with no sound either), or to add the line alias
> > parport_lowlevel parport_pc to /etc/conf.modules. This had no effect either.
> >
> > I can't tell if the modem problem is related. The serial ports appear during
> > installation. However, I can't get minicom to respond. the modem is a Hayes
> > Accura 366000.
> >
> > I suppose the only other options are IRQ problems, or motherboard
> > incompatibilities. I have a new Gigabyte BX. The only information I could
> > find in the HOWTOs implied that it is difficult to debug IRQ conflicts in
> > Linux.
> >
> > Rohan Parkes
> >
> >
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