RE: [Hpoj-devel] newbie question

[Erick C. <ec...@ar...>]

> > > cat /proc/parport/0/autoprobe
> >
> > MODEL:Unknown device;
> > MANUFACTURER:Unknown vendor;
>
> > ... which seems obviously wrong but I don't know what valid values
> > might be...
>
> It should report something like "Hewlett-Packard" (possibly all
> uppercased) and "OfficeJet Series 700" for the manufacturer and
> model fields.

forgive my ignorance on the subject but how would such information get
to these files?  is there some package or something I have to
install/run before I try to install your sofware?  I have the lpr
package installed... is there anything else I need?

> Strange.  Did you do this while the parport, parport_pc, and
parport_probe
> modules were loaded?  I would have expected to see lines like:
>	0378-037a : parport0
>	0778-077a : parport0

yes, I did.  I can see the 3 modules loaded.....

> I'm really starting to run out of ideas here.

no! no! :)  this can't be that difficult!

> The only thing I can think of is that
> maybe you have a bad parallel port or cable.

I use this printer to print from my laptop so I know the printer's
good and so is the cable.

> What brand/model of computer are you using?

it's an old brandless P90 with Phoenix BIOS and a 20G drive. but I
know his parallel port is good because before I installed Linux on it
I could print from it on Win98.

> I was going to ask if you were running VMWare (which tends to take
> over the parallel port), but I didn't see anything related to it in
> your lsmod output.

nope.  no VMWare.  just pure Linux...  is there anything I can
de-install and re-install...? where can we go from here?

1k thx - e