Any USB-connected parallel port devices in use?

[Mark LaPierre]

On 10/13/2011 04:10 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> My parallel-port printer is connected via a Belikin parallel-port-to-
> USB connector.  Worked fine in F14, completely broken in F15. Bugzilla
> discussion (742398) places the blame on the driver (uss720) for those
> converters, and there the problem sits.
>
> I'm curious if there's anyone out there that has a similar setup, and
> what your experience might be.
>

I tried to use a USB to parallel cable once with a new mother board that 
didn't have a parallel port on board.  No joy.

The I bought a parallel port IDE card.  No joy there either.  I ended up 
reinstalling the old MB to get the printer working again.

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