I have to motherboards, but the one I'm working on is a TForce 6100 socket 939. It seems that the BIOS is Plug-N-Play, but I am having problems that I can't find a parallel port device file. Usually these are located in /dev and named /dev/parpaport0 (or /dev/parport#). In previous kernels they used to be named /dev/lp# (ie. /dev/lp0). When I look through dmesg I see;


What I DON'T see is: lp0: using parport0
or something to that effect.

I know that the system can see the parallel port, but it isn't creating the device file. I know I can use mknod but I don't know the parameters and stuff. I see it in

and other places. There isn't a place in the BIOS to turn off plug-n-pray.

Can someone help? I'm trying to get my VFD working!


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as root try the following:

mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0
chmod a+rw /dev/parport0

if required, you may also modprobe ppdev

good luck.

nope didn't work.