Bug 5698 – Local printers lost/can't be found...

Bug 5698 - Local printers lost/can't be found...

Summary:	Local printers lost/can't be found...

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	printtool (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Duplicates:	5706 9801 9814 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	1999-10-07 16:47 EDT by dirvine
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:10 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	1999-10-08 14:54:25 EDT
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Description dirvine 1999-10-07 16:47:35 EDT

Installer/printtools cannot find any attached printers to
/dev/lp* in RedHat 6.1, where as in 6.0 they could. Any
ideas? I reinstalled both 6.0 and 6.1 from scratch (haven't
tried updating 6.0 to 6.1) and the problem is reproducable.
Machine is a Dell XPST P 3 500 mhz, printer is a HP 2100 m
postscript printer attached to the parallel port. In RH 6.0,
the generic postscript 1200dpi settings from the installer
script worked....

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-07 17:34:59 EDT

Add
'alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc' to your /etc/conf.modules.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-08 11:52:59 EDT

*** Bug 5706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is really a no-brainer.  When installing 6.1 from
scratch, conf.modules is missing the alias for
parport_lowlevel to parport_pc.  lpd expects to find
parport_lowlevel

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-08 14:54:59 EDT

If you grab the modutils from Raw Hide, it should process this
alias automatically for you.

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-28 10:55:59 EST

*** Bug 9814 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-28 10:56:59 EST

*** Bug 9801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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