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I installed RH6.1 and all works well except printing doesn't work.

I've reinstalled 3 times with no luck.  Here's what I know:

Printer worked under WIN98 and previously RH6.0
Checked BIOS I have one parallel port, addr 378, IRQ 7.

When I use Print tool  and try to add a printer it states /dev/lp0, 1
and 2 not detected.

After boot-up I did a dmesg and get,
lp: driver loaded but no devices found

Viewed the following:
/proc/devices      found nothing pertaining to lp or parallel port

/proc/interrupts   found nothing pertaining, IRQ 7 not even assigned

/proc/ioports      found nothing pertaining, address space 378-37F not
assigned

/proc/modules      and got the following,
parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean) (unused)
lp            4476 0 (autoclean) (unused)
parport       7124 0 (autoclean) [parport_probe lp]

tried:
echo "testing" > /dev/lp0 and get,
bash: /dev/lp0: no such device

tried:
ls -l /dev/lp0 and get,
crw_rw_ _ _ _ 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 6 1998 /dev/lp0

New at Linux, so I'm not even sure what to look for.  Would really like
some help, not sure what to do next.

Thanks

Same problem occurs for serial ports.
Only serial port working is the one with a mouse attached.
On a machine with a ps/2 mouse, no serial port is working.

Has somebody a sollution ?

It looks like your printer is /dev/lp0, I suggest you read the printing
HOWTO.

It's a bug. You have to recompile kernel with support for parallel port.

Regards,

Michael

Adding

   alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
   options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7

to /etc/conf.modules worked for me.

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt for more information.

- Steven