where's my parallel port?
Alexander Apprich
a.apprich at science-computing.de
Mon Feb 21 08:07:31 UTC 2005
Hi Joe,
Joe Byrne wrote:
> I'm sure there's an easy answer to this question. How do I
> locate/activate my parallel port? I'm running FC3 on an Intel 845-based
> motherboard.
>
> /$ dmesg | grep par/
>
> turns up nothing.
>
> /$ cat /proc/ioports/
>
> turns up nothing looking like a parallel port, either. The 378
> neighborhood seems vacant.
>
> Is there a set of packages that I need to install?
>
what does
modprobe -k parport_pc
say? If it doesn't show up in Linux, it might be disabled
in your BIOS?! More than the kernelmodule parport_pc is AFAIK
not needed.
Alex
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