printer stopped working - in 2.6.10 kernels

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:02:26 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
<mjc at avtechpulse.com> wrote:
> Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > My locally-connected HP LJ2100 no longer works. Nothing prints, but no
> > error messages occur either. I deleted the printer, but CUPS no longer
> > seems to recognize the parallel ports.
> >
> > dmesg | grep lp
> >
> > gives:
> >
> > lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> 
> An update: This happens with 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 or 2.6.10-1.737_FC3
> selected from grub, but 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 is OK.
> 
> "dmesg | grep lp" on 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 gives:
> 
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp0: console ready
> 
> Is the parallel port broken in 2.6.10?
> 
> - Mike
> 

I just booted 2.6.10-1.741_FC3.  Printers off both parallel ports (
lp0 and lp1) work just fine.