Im not an expert, but if I can pitch my 1 cent.. In a terminal.. Type: echo "test or whatever you want" | lpr Or cat $some_file | lpr -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark LaPierre Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 8:44 PM To: Community support for Fedora users Subject: Re: I need help to get my parallel port working. 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 -- 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 -- 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
