[NTLUG:Discuss] Having trouble setting up local printer

[Dan Carlson]

Ignore my comment about setserial, that obviously only applies to serial
ports!

Dan Carlson

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From: "Dan Carlson" <dmcarlson at prodigy.net>
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Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Having trouble setting up local printer


> You can pass parameters to the kernel to specify the parallel port
addresses
> and IRQs like this: lp=0x278,5,0x378,7
>
> You can type this in on the LILO boot prompt line, or you can put it in
the
> "append =" line in lilo.conf, then run lilo to put it into effect.
>
> By default the parallel port driver uses polling, it doesn't use an
> interrupt.  Use the setserial command to tell the driver to use an
> interrupt, and which one to use, for each port.
>
> Dan Carlson
>
>  Alton Pouncey wrote:
>  >
>  > Hey all,
>  >
>  <snip>
>  >
>  > I guess my question is:  How do I assign my parallel port to a new
> > interrupt in Linux?
> >
>
>
>
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