I need help to get my parallel port working.

[Mark LaPierre]

On 04/20/2010 12:03 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote:
> On 4/19/10, Mark LaPierre<marklapier at 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.