Parallel Port Issues

Geoffrey Leach geoff at hughes.net
Sun Jan 1 00:19:17 UTC 2012


On 12/31/2011 07:41:52 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 22:48 -0500, Mark LaPierre wrote: 
> > Anyone know how to find out if the parallel port is recognized?  I
> have 
> > a parallel port printer connected to my machine but I can't seem to
> get 
> > it working.
> 
> It is oon my laptop.

Try this: 
dmesg -c
unplug the cable to the printer
plug it in again
dmesg

and post the output


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