Bug 5440 - Parallel printer not supported by conf.modules
Summary: Parallel printer not supported by conf.modules
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brock Organ
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: 5186 5526 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-09-29 19:45 UTC by David Lawrence
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-06 20:38:25 UTC

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Description Derek Tattersall 1999-09-29 19:45:40 UTC 
The installer does not put the statement "alias
parport_lowlevel parport_pc" in the conf.modules and as a
result printool fails and parallel port printers are not
enabled.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-05 16:06:59 UTC 
*** Bug 5186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

lorax unable to locate printer installed on lp0.  6.0
detects presence of printer on /dev/lp0 properly, installs
and sets up correctly.  Lorax fails to recognize lp0 at
all (reports not detected), unable to print via even direct
output to device.

------- Additional Comments From notting@redhat.com  09/18/99 14:53 -------
Add 'alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc' to your /etc/conf.modules -
does that help?*** Bug 5526 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

no paraport information in /etc/conf.modules.
Comment 2 Brock Organ 2000-06-13 18:12:37 UTC 
does this still occur using 6.2?
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2000-07-06 01:21:19 UTC 
Brock, I think this one has been resolved for a bit now.  It was a "gotcha" in
6.1, but was fixed for 6.2; at least, it's fixed on all of the 6.2 boxes I've
installed around here and I don't have anything doing it in my ks.cfg :)
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