From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: No Printing with Kernel 2.6.14.4 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 23:02:55 -0800 Message-ID: <441D021F.1060705@comarre.com> References: <200603190543.k2J5hmPC001185@skyinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200603190543.k2J5hmPC001185@skyinet.net> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux Peter wrote: > Hi, > > Slackware 10.2 > > When I change from kernel 2.4.31 to kernel 2.6.14.4 by installing > kernel-generic-2.6.14.4-i686-2sh.tgz and kernel-modules-2.6.14.4-i686-2sh.tgz > I cannot print anymore since apparently there is no provision for a parallel > port which my printer Epson LQ 300 is using. At least when configuring the > printer using gnome-cups-manager with kernel 2.6.14.4 it only shows serial and > usb ports. > > How would I go about getting a parallel port into the 2.6.14.4 kernel. Could I > copy it from the 2.4.31 modules and which one? > > In /usr/src I have no linux-2.6.14 directory only one for linux-2.4.31. > > Thanks & regards I just checked the kernel source I have handy (2.6.11, Debian package) and it appears to offer parallel port support. The relevant modules are parport and parport_pc (the same as 2.4.x, I think ... it's been some years since I used a parallel port). You might try modprobe'ing these modules and see what results. If Slackware left them out of its standard modules package, I can't imagine why. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs