I need help to get my parallel port working.

[fred smith]

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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> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
> 



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