Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 09/11/2011 12:01 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have installed Fedora 15 on Intel DH67BL motherboard & Intel
> I7-2600 Processor. Since I need to print to a Dot Matrix printer on
> LPT: I added a PCI Card providing a Parallel & a Serial Port. On the
> box it says Linux supported, but does not provide any driver.
> Literature inside says use Parport drivers.
> 
> BIOS shows the card installed, identifies it as 32 bit/33 MHz, and
> shows Vendor/Device Id as <4348:5053>. But there are no options to
> enable/disable or change any settings, so I think rest is all
> software driver related.
> 
> I need to initialize the parport driver automatically at boot time.
> Can someone provide instructions or point to a resource. Net search
> on parport is yielding low level programming links, but I just need
> to initialize the parallel port to install a dot matrix printer.
> 
> Please help.
> Sanjay.
> 
Try running "modprobe parport_pc" as root, and see if that enables
the card. Also, if I remember correctly, the device name will not be
lp0. But I can not remember the name.

If you want to use the serial port, you will probably have to load
parport_serial as well.

Mikkel
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