Red Hat 9 + Kernel 2.6 = Printer prints only garbage

Andrew Lewis al at xm.co.za
Wed Sep 15 09:08:39 UTC 2004


Hi,

We've got a RedHat9 installation on which we've upgraded the kernel to
version 2.6.8.1, for purposes of making a multiport serial card only
supported in 2.6.x work. Printing (over parallel port) wasn't working @
all until I insmod'd lp.ko after which I can now print, but only
garbage...

Tested with more than one printer (Laserjet2100 & Text/Dotmatrix), both
of which are known to work otherwise...

I looked this up on Google, but came up with nothing....

Anyone else experienced this problem?

-AL.





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