[ale] Parallel port not found problem

Matt Yurman matt at linuxgeneral.net
Sat Nov 27 16:06:03 EST 1999


On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:50:10 GMT, you wrote:

>Hi all,
>	More problems with my RedHat 6.1 installation. After deciding to go 
>ahead and use 6.1 without system sounds(from a previous posting). I 
>have discovered that it does not recognize that I have a printer. The 
>printer configuration tool does not show my printers port either. It 
>does not show up in the addresses used either. I have tried disabling 
>PNP and set my printer port up as a standard port in CMOS. Nothing has 
>worked thus far. RedHat 6.0 worked great. Any ideas?????
>
>
>TIA,
>
>Jim Seymour
>
This seems to be something that RedHat has left out of thier conf.modules files lately.  Add this
line to it and things should work as you expect

alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc






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