On 4/19/10, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@xxxxxxx> 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
