That did not seem to work. I tried all sorts of changes to the printcap. The printer tool did not seem to recognize the parallel ports at all. I do not know where the parallel ports are set up maybe that will help. I am using a samba smb share to print at the moment and that works but there has to be something wrong. dale eldridge ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeffrey Watts To: Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:10 AM Subject: Re: kclug - newbie question > On Thu, 11 May 2000, dale eldridge wrote: > > > Hi, I am new to the linux/kclug listserv here and was wondering if > > anyone could help me with a linux problem? I have upgraded from redhat > > 5.1 to 6.1 and now have lost my printer port. Is there a way of > > manually adding that port so my local printer will work again? > > Howdy. > > The thing that has changed between Red Hat 5.x to 6.x that has broken your > printer is the new 2.2.x kernel. One of the new features of the kernel is > that it changed the way that parallel ports were numbered. > > So, if your printer port was "lp1" on your old machine, it is probably > "lp0" now. This happened to me personally. Change the line: > > :lp=/dev/lp1:> > In your /etc/printcap to " :lp=/dev/lp0:" (or vice versa) to fix this. > > Jeffrey. > > o-----------------------------------o > | Jeffrey Watts | > | watts@jayhawks.net o-------------------------------------------o > | Systems Programmer | "Is uniformity [of religion] attainable? | > | Network Systems Management | Millions of innocent men, women, and | > | Sprint Communications | children, since the introduction of | > o----------------------------| Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, | > | fined, imprisoned; yet we have not | > | advanced one inch towards uniformity. | > | -- Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia" | > o-------------------------------------------o > > > > >