Any ideas folks, is there something I should have done on install
As you know, I'm not overly familiar with RedHat, but there are a few possibilties here from the off.
(1) Do the lp0 and lp1 device nodes actually exist?
(2) Do you have permission to write to the nodes? If you type 'echo test >/dev/lp0' and it comes back with 'Permission denied', then you need to check the permissions of the lp devices to give yourself write access - you may well find, if redhat is anything like debian that the nodes are all in groups, so you can just add yourself to the 'lp' group. If it comes back as 'Device does not exist', then one of the following is likely to be the cause...
(3) Do they have the correct major and minor node numbers? When you do 'ls -l /dev/lp*', you should get the following:
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp1 crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp2
Your permissions and owner/group may be different, however the '6, #' should be the same, afaik.
(4) Has your kernel got parallel port support built in? You may well find that parallel support is compiled as a module, in which case you should be able to add it to whichever file controls boot time module loading (/etc/modules.conf?). Assuming that the version of RH you're running has a 2.2.x kernel, you need to make sure that both 'parallel port support', and 'pc style hardware' are enabled in the kernel setup.
HTH - if it doesn't - get back to me, and I'll have a think.
Paul
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