On 04/20/2010 12:03 AM, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > 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 > Reinstalling F8 is my current plan. I just burned a copy of the F8, F9, F10, F11, and F12 X86-64 DVD. Tomorrow night I'm ripping this thing down and starting over from bare metal. I'll let you all know how this works out. Thanks to all for the help. -- 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
