I need help to get my parallel port working.
Maxime Alarie
malarie at processia.com
Tue Apr 20 14:34:46 UTC 2010
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 at lists.fedoraproject.org
[mailto:users-bounces at 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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