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.
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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
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modprobe -c
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
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lsmod | grep parport
parport_pc 17509 1
parport 27256 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
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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
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