Re: I need help to get my parallel port working.

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Mark LaPierre 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
>   

Hey all,

F8 will not install on my new XFX 750a SLI nFORCE motherboard. The SATA 
port driver doesn't seem to work correctly. I can nether intall F8 on it 
nor can I install F8 on my original MSI motherboard, then transfer the 
HD to the XFX mb. It just will not read from the SATA DVD or HD after 
the initial boot record is read.

I've reinstalled F8 on my old MSI mb. I've got the printer working 
again. Now I'm going to set up all the rest of the services that I want 
before I try to upgrade from F8 to F9. Then I'm going to get everything 
working again. Then I'll install the new XFX mb, which I know works with 
F9, and try to get that system to work with my printer.

I suppose if all that fails I'll just buy a new SATA IDE interface card, 
if such a thing exists, and just keep the old MSI mb.

Again, I'll keep you all updated on my efforts.
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