On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:41 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an HP LJ 4000N hooked up to my machine via an old parallel > port. A few days ago, this stopped working. I suspected that a kernel or > udev problem was the cause. I went to system-config-printer and deleted > the printer; then, I attempted to bring it back. Isee several printers on > our building network, but no options for parallel. Is there something else > I should be choosing in the setup menus to make it work? For the Device > URI, I have tried Socket://:9100, serial ports 1-3 (incase it got > confused)...and several others. I give up. Any ideas? ---- 1 - try booting an older kernel to see if the problem actually occurred from kernel update 2 - Socket://IP_ADDRESS:9100 only works for networked printers - not parallel connections. 3 - Check /var/log/messages & dmesg to see if parallel port is reflected (i.e. grep/look for parport) -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
