Help Pl: Fedora 15 not detecting PCI Parallel Port

[Peter Gueckel]

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.

It's been a long time since I used that, but I think you need to modprobe 
parport_pc (as root).

If you check in this directory:

/lib/modules/3.1.0-0.rc4.git0.0.fc16.x86_64/kernel/drivers/parport

you will see the various parport kernel modules available.