printer stopped working - in 2.6.10 kernels

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:17:31 -0800, Kam Leo <kam.leo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Compare dmesg from both kernels for parport0.  Is there a difference?