On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 19:12 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > I have an HP Laserjet 4plus that works off the parallel port. > The system-config-printer gui does not automatically see it either. > I just created a printer definition with the port specified > as /dev/lp0 > and the proper print driver. It then worked. In 2.6.9 kernels with my laptop, the gui did find the device and select a print driver. Something in the recent kernels has broken this functionality. > There is no need to scan the port. Parallel and serial devices are > not > normally detected by kudzu, either at connection time or when > disconnected. In fact AFAIK most hot plug managers do not see these > type devices. I think you are wrong here. With a 2.6.9 kernel, I was able to get kudzu to recognize the printer without any problems. I think the 2.6.10 kernels broke this functionality. See my resolved post for more info. -- Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
