<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mellertson@gmail.com">mellertson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div></div>Try running "modprobe parport_pc" as root, and see if that enables<br>
the card. Also, if I remember correctly, the device name will not be<br>
lp0. But I can not remember the name.<br>
<br>
If you want to use the serial port, you will probably have to load<br>
parport_serial as well.<br>
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Mikkel</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Output:</div><div><div>[root@acct ~]# modprobe parport_pc</div><div>[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc</div><div>[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc</div><div>[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc</div>
<div>[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_serial</div><div>insmod /lib/modules/2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_serial.ko </div></div><div><br></div><div>Some /var/log/messages lines (scattered in log):</div>
<div>Sep 13 11:45:57 acct kernel: [ 203.612821] lp: driver loaded but no devices found</div><div>Sep 13 11:50:11 acct kernel: [ 456.604811] TCP lp registered</div><div><br></div><div>Dmesg:</div><div><div>[ 24.762672] lp: driver loaded but no devices found</div>
<div>[ 24.871943] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver</div></div><div><br></div><div>From the above it seems that the port on the parallel port pci card is not being detected....but windows 7 which is dual-booted on the same machine is printing through that same parallel port.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can someone please help?</div><div><br></div><div>With best regards.</div><div>Sanjay.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>