RE: I need help to get my parallel port working.

[Maxime Alarie]

Im not an expert, but if I can pitch my 1 cent..

In a terminal..
Type:  echo "test or whatever you want"  | lpr

Or cat $some_file | lpr


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Mark
LaPierre
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 8:44 PM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: I need help to get my parallel port working.

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
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