Problem with printer on parallel port.

[Kim Lux]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 17:13 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Tuesday, Mar 29th 2005 at 11:24 -0800, quoth Kam Leo:
> 
> =>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:56:18 -0500, Terry Polzin
> =><fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> =>> >On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:26 pm, Kim Lux wrote:
> =>> > I've got the same problem and have had it for months now.  It seems as
> =>> > though FC3 doesn't support parallel port printers* ! The older kernels
> =>> > 2.6.9-1.747 etc. supported them fine, but the newer ones do not.
> =>> >
> =>> > * I am being facetious here.  FC3 does support them, there is a bug
> =>> > somewhere.
> =>> Add the following in your /etc/modeprobe.conf
> =>> 
> =>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> =>> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
> =>> 
> =>
> =>The same fix was posted in February under "Printer does not work with
> =>newer kernel versions".  Kim, you were a part of the dialog. Did you
> =>even try the fix?

I've got the following in /etc/modprobe.conf

<paste begins>
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3 
<paste ends>

I tried it back when it was recommended, February.

I tried it set up several different ways, etc.

I cannot get Kudzu to tell me there is a printer on the parallel port.
The printer on the machine I am presently working on is a Lexmark Optra
S.  This setup worked fine with older kernels, 2.6.9-1.747, for
example.  



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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.