7:30 p.m.
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
3:14 a.m.
New subject: [OT] List Mail From Address
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:16 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
list?
I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way.
Just because you've used some broken mailing lists doesn't mean others
should follow in their example. This list works the way that just about
every other list I've ever used does.
The "to" address shows where the message went to (the list).
The "from" address shows where it came from (the author).
The "reply-to" address shows where replies should go to (the list).
The one deviation from the bad is this list's "subject" line shows the
subject, and doesn't have any other [crap] inserted.
The from address shouldn't be the list, the message isn't actually
*from* the list, it's just coming through it.
It makes it so much easier to sort out all the list email from all
my
normal email.
Back in the days of when I had a decent mail client (on the Amiga, by
the way), I did what most people on mailing lists did. We sorted our
list mail into different folders, one per list. Using something unique
to each list. In this case, your best choices are the reply-to or
list-id headers. You could also use the to address, although you can
sometimes mis-filter a CC'd or forwarded message, that way.
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2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I
read messages from the public lists.
10:43 p.m.
New subject: [OT] List Mail From Address
On 04/27/2010 11:16 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Mr/Ms list coordinator,
Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
list?
I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way. It makes it
so much easier to sort out all the list email from all my normal email.
I waste a lot of time trying to sort out the Fedora list mail from my
normal mail that I could be using to help answer list questions.
What is so hard about sorting on the "To" address or
"Reply-To"?
Don't you think, if this was such a problem it wouldn't have been
addressed long ago?
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on his deathbed] Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
11:34 p.m.
New subject: [OT] List Mail From Address
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:16 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
Hey Mr/Ms list coordinator,
Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
list?
I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way. It makes it
so much easier to sort out all the list email from all my normal email.
I waste a lot of time trying to sort out the Fedora list mail from my
normal mail that I could be using to help answer list questions.
The Reply-To header points back to the list, not to the sender, and is
trivially easy to filter on. What's the problem?
poc
11:29 p.m.
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:03 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
I've reinstalled F8 on my old MSI mb. I've got the printer working
again. Now I'm going to set up all the rest of the services that I
want before I try to upgrade from F8 to F9.
Note that neither of these is supported, hence will not receive even
critical bug and security updates. If you want to use Fedora, be
prepared to stay current (i.e. F11 or F12, soon F12 or F13). If you want
long-term stability, a different distro might suit you better, e.g. RHEL
or Centos.
poc
10:16 p.m.
New subject: [OT] List Mail From Address
Hey Mr/Ms list coordinator,
Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
list?
I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way. It makes it
so much easier to sort out all the list email from all my normal email.
I waste a lot of time trying to sort out the Fedora list mail from my
normal mail that I could be using to help answer list questions.
Mark LaPierre
9:09 p.m.
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.
2:20 p.m.
On 04/20/2010 12:10 PM, fred smith wrote:
On 04/17/2010 07:30 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.
Have you looked in the computer's BIOS settings screen(s) to ensure that
the parallel port is not disabled?
Also even if it is enabled, there are usually several settings for some
details of how the port works, some of which may work better than others
(i.e., some may work, some may not, depending on your printer and OS.)
Afraid I can't offer any guidance on which settings would be best.
From the looks of the listing, OP has a PCI parallel card. I do not
know if it is a single or double port card, but it looks like a
double port card. It may not show up as lp? - it may be a bit more
complicated name. (Just like USB parallel devices are USBlp?.) The
boot log will probably show what device(s).
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
11:06 a.m.
You have tried a configuration with http://localhost:631/ ???
On 04/17/2010 05:30 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
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Software Engineer
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www.extraview.com
8:45 a.m.
On 04/17/2010 07:30 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.
<------------------[ SNIP ]-------------->
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 am trying to remember how I did it with a PCI card. I think you
need a file in /etc/modprobe.d that lists the gives the options for
parport_pc as io=0xb480 irq=11. Something like a file called
parport-pci.conf with this as the contents:
options parport_pc io=0xb480 irq=11
You may need io=0xbc00 instead of io=b480. You will have to run
depmod after making the changes, remove and reinstall the parport_pc
module, before the changes will take affect. (Or reboot.)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
7:43 p.m.
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
9:10 p.m.
New subject: [OT] List Mail From Address SOLVED
Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:16 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
> mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
> list?
>
> I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way.
>
Just because you've used some broken mailing lists doesn't mean others
should follow in their example. This list works the way that just about
every other list I've ever used does.
The "to" address shows where the message went to (the list).
The "from" address shows where it came from (the author).
The "reply-to" address shows where replies should go to (the list).
The one deviation from the bad is this list's "subject" line shows the
subject, and doesn't have any other [crap] inserted.
The from address shouldn't be the list, the message isn't actually
*from* the list, it's just coming through it.
> It makes it so much easier to sort out all the list email from all my
> normal email.
>
Back in the days of when I had a decent mail client (on the Amiga, by
the way), I did what most people on mailing lists did. We sorted our
list mail into different folders, one per list. Using something unique
to each list. In this case, your best choices are the reply-to or
list-id headers. You could also use the to address, although you can
sometimes mis-filter a CC'd or forwarded message, that way.
Hey Y'all,
Thanks for the great suggestions. I've settled on the "Recipient" header
in combination with the string filter.
11:15 p.m.
New subject: List Mail From Address
On 27Apr2010 11:43, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
| On 04/27/2010 11:16 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
| > Is it possible to get the list mail to bear the return address of the
| > mail list instead of the address of the person who sent the mail to the
| > list?
No. (Not that I'm the list admin, though I run other lists.)
| > I've subscribed to several other lists that work that way. It makes it
| > so much easier to sort out all the list email from all my normal email.
| > I waste a lot of time trying to sort out the Fedora list mail from my
| > normal mail that I could be using to help answer list questions.
| >
| What is so hard about sorting on the "To" address or "Reply-To"?
Perhaps his mail client is deficient.
| Don't you think, if this was such a problem it wouldn't have been
| addressed long ago?
He's not coming at it from that angle. He's got a mail reader in front
of him. Most GUI reader show this multicolumn index area with subject,
from, date and a few other things.
To the naive user, all he/she has to play with is the "click on the
column heading to sort on that column".
Mark,
I suggest you either:
Look at your mail reader's filtering options; most users usually filter
mailing list email into a different folder (I put a lot of unix/linux
lists into a folder called "unix"). Your mail reader should be able
to do that for you automatically with a little setup.
Look at your mail reader's "View" options; you may be able to get a
column
shown for some other header (eg reply-to, or effective reply address).
Cheers,
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10:03 p.m.
Mark LaPierre 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
Hey all,
F8 will not install on my new XFX 750a SLI nFORCE motherboard. The SATA
port driver doesn't seem to work correctly. I can nether intall F8 on it
nor can I install F8 on my original MSI motherboard, then transfer the
HD to the XFX mb. It just will not read from the SATA DVD or HD after
the initial boot record is read.
I've reinstalled F8 on my old MSI mb. I've got the printer working
again. Now I'm going to set up all the rest of the services that I want
before I try to upgrade from F8 to F9. Then I'm going to get everything
working again. Then I'll install the new XFX mb, which I know works with
F9, and try to get that system to work with my printer.
I suppose if all that fails I'll just buy a new SATA IDE interface card,
if such a thing exists, and just keep the old MSI mb.
Again, I'll keep you all updated on my efforts.
12:10 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:45:10AM -0500, Mikkel wrote:
On 04/17/2010 07:30 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.
Have you looked in the computer's BIOS settings screen(s) to ensure that
the parallel port is not disabled?
Also even if it is enabled, there are usually several settings for some
details of how the port works, some of which may work better than others
(i.e., some may work, some may not, depending on your printer and OS.)
Afraid I can't offer any guidance on which settings would be best.
Fred
>
> 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.
>
<------------------[ SNIP ]-------------->
>
> 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 am trying to remember how I did it with a PCI card. I think you
need a file in /etc/modprobe.d that lists the gives the options for
parport_pc as io=0xb480 irq=11. Something like a file called
parport-pci.conf with this as the contents:
options parport_pc io=0xb480 irq=11
You may need io=0xbc00 instead of io=b480. You will have to run
depmod after making the changes, remove and reinstall the parport_pc
module, before the changes will take affect. (Or reboot.)
Mikkel
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9:34 a.m.
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
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[mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] 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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11:03 p.m.
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
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