Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8278
parallel port not detected after installation
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I could not set up a printer in control panel after I have installed RH Linux 6.1 over an older version (6.0). Reason: the program did not detect any parallel ports (lp0,lp1,lp2). Trying to configure it manually gave me no good result either. I didn't resolve this even when I have used your new boot disks from your errata web site.Reloading RH Linux 6.0, then UPGRADING to v6.1 worked around this problem, and I had again the parallel port correctly detected. This may seem like a good solution, but you have to take into account the fact that there are a lot of customers that buy RH Linux 6.1 for the first time. The system I worked on is: AMD K6-220 MHz, 64 MB RAM, two IDE HDD (Western Digital Caviar), IDE CD-ROM. Linux is on the slave disk (hdb1...hdb8). The master disk (hda*)is occupied by Windows NT. I boot by using LILO, which is in MBR, on hda. I hope you will solve this problem and keep me informed about this issue. Thank you. Ferdi Badescu.
This is a duplicate of bug #5680. Try the modules package from Raw Hide, or add this to your /etc/conf.modules to work around it: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5680 ***