On 04/20/2010 12:03 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
On 4/19/10, Mark LaPierre<marklapier(a)aol.com> wrote:
> On 04/17/2010 08:30 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I can not get my parallel port to connect to my printer. The printer
>> was working with F8. Then I upgraded to F10. The printer has not
>> worked since.
>>
>> Now I have F12 32 bit installed. I've tried everything I can think of
>> including messing with the CMOS settings from Yes PNP OS to No PNP OS.
>>
>> When I first started trying to diagnose this problem I used the
>> System/Administration tools to debug the printer problems. Several
>> problems, such as incorrect file ownership, were found and corrected.
>> Now I get no further issues when I print but I also get nothing coming
>> from the printer. The printing queue says that the job is
"Processing"
>> but askes, "Is the printer connected?" Remember, this is the same
>> printer, and same cable that was working with F8. Only the software has
>> been changed to confuse the innocent.
>>
>> I've uninstalled the printer driver and cups, rebooted the machine,
>> reinstalled cups. Downloaded a current copy of the Linux driver from
>> the printer manufacturer and installed the driver. No joy. :-(
>>
>> I've spent a couple of days poking around the internet looking for help
>> with this issue. I've found a lot of people having problems getting
>> their parallel printers working with F12 that had worked with previous
>> versions of Fedora but none of those posts have helped.
>>
>> Here is the results of the poking around that I've done.
>> ************
>> lspci -v
>> 01:08.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O
>> Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
>> Subsystem: Device a000:2000
>> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>> I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
>> I/O ports at b480 [size=8]
>> Memory at f8efe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>> Memory at f8efd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>> Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>> ************
>> modprobe -c
>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
>> ************
>> lsmod | grep parport
>> parport_pc 17509 1
>> parport 27256 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
>> ************
>>
>> The ball's in your court now Y'all. Does anyone have any ideas how I
>> can further diagnose the problem and get the printer singing again?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
> I bought a new parallel cable. No joy.
> I bought a USB to parallel cable. The printer now makes noise but it's
> not happy printing noise. Still no joy
> --
>
Reinstall FC8....
<can you partition drive and keep 8?>
Check to see how it works there...
If it still works??
YMMV
Marvin
Reinstalling F8 is my current plan. I just burned a copy of the F8, F9,
F10, F11, and F12 X86-64 DVD. Tomorrow night I'm ripping this thing
down and starting over from bare metal. I'll let you all know how this
works out. Thanks to all for the help.