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#!/bin/sh
# script for testing installation of a PPA printer, v0.5 20000908
# (C) 2000,2001 The pnm2ppa project
# Requires Linux 2.2.x kernels with parport autoprobe support.
# Now updated for 2.4.x kernels too.
# assumes all parallel ports are in the range 0-7 (0-15 in 2.4 kernels)
# (as linux/include/parport.h sets PARPORT_MAX=8) (=16 in 2.4)
MODPROBE="/sbin/modprobe"
PROC_PARPORT="/proc/parport"
PARPORT=""
PARPORT_LIST="0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"
echo "*** Script for testing installation of PPA printers on Linux "
echo " (requires 2.2.x kernel or later)"
supported="710 720 820 1000"
if [ -e /proc/sys/dev/parport ] ; then
echo "*** 2.4.x kernel: found /proc/sys/dev/parport/"
PROC_PARPORT="/proc/sys/dev/parport"
PARPORT="parport"
PARPORT_LIST="0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15"
else
if [ "$($MODPROBE -l parport_probe.o )" = "" ] ; then
echo "*** kernel module parport_probe.o not found:"
echo "*** IEEE-1284 autodetection not supported by this Linux kernel"
exit 1
fi
fi
if ! $($MODPROBE -r ) ; then
echo "*** Error: cannot load/unload kernel module(s) "
echo " You must run this script as root "
exit 1
fi
# (re)probe the parport:
$MODPROBE -r lp
# unload the lowlevel parport driver
#(probably only ARCH=pc is OK for PPA printers?)
for ARCH in amiga arc atari ax mfc3 pc ; do
$MODPROBE -r parport_$ARCH
done
$MODPROBE lp
if [ -e $PROC_PARPORT ] ; then
found=0
found_ppa=0
ppa_printer=""
for n in $PARPORT_LIST ; do
if [ -e $PROC_PARPORT/$PARPORT$n/autoprobe ] ; then
found=1
echo " "
echo "Device found at parallel port $n (usually /dev/lp$n )"
echo "IEEE-1284 autoprobe reports:"
cat $PROC_PARPORT/$PARPORT$n/autoprobe
report=$(cat $PROC_PARPORT/$PARPORT$n/autoprobe)
for printer in $supported ; do
if $(echo $report |grep -e "DESKJET $printer" >/dev/null) ; then
found_ppa=1
text=" type=$printer, port=$n;"
ppa_printer=$ppa_printer$text
fi
done
fi
done
echo " "
if [ "$found_ppa" = 0 ] ; then
echo "No supported PPA printers attached to parallel port(s) were found"
echo "(Make sure the printer's power cable is connected!!)"
else
echo "Supported PPA printers found on parallel ports:"
echo $ppa_printer
echo "printers on parallel port <n> are by default accessed by printing to /dev/lp<n>"
echo "(unless this was explictly changed when loading the parport module)"
fi
else
echo "*** Error: /proc/parport does not exist:"
echo "*** Cannot autoprobe IEEE-1284 parallel port devices."
echo "(This requires 2.2.x kernels with IEEE-1284 autoprobe support)"
echo "A IEEE-1284 bidirectional parallel port cable is also required"
echo "*** Possible causes of error:"
echo " 1. You are running an older Linux kernel (2.0.x or earlier)"
echo " -- this does NOT mean that you cannot make your PPA printer"
echo " work; however, this test script will not work."
echo " 2. Check that the printer is properly connected to a parallel"
echo " port, with a bidirectional IEEE-1284 cable, and is switched"
echo " on. (If your printer works under MS Windows(tm), you have "
echo " the correct cable.)"
echo " 3. If \"lsmod\" shows that the lp, parport and parport_probe"
echo " modules are loaded, but not the architecture-dependent "
echo " module parport_pc, you may need to add a line "
echo " alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc "
echo " to your /etc/conf.modules file (needed for RedHat 6.1)."
echo " "
echo " (modules for other architectures exist, e.g., parport_ax for "
echo " Sun Ultra/AX, but it is not clear whether PPA printers "
echo " will work on such hardware (let us know if you try...))"
exit 0
fi
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