Problem with printer on parallel port.

[Kim Lux]

I've got the same problem and have had it for months now.  It seems as
though FC3 doesn't support parallel port printers* ! The older kernels
2.6.9-1.747 etc. supported them fine, but the newer ones do not. 

* I am being facetious here.  FC3 does support them, there is a bug
somewhere. 


On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 14:16 -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Saturday, Mar 26th 2005 at 10:33 -0500, quoth Steven W. Orr:
> 
> =>I upgraded to 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp and now my printer doesn't work.
> =>
> =>[root at saturn]# cat /home/steveo/mozilla.ps > /dev/lp0
> =>bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address
> =>
> =>[root at saturn]# ls -l /dev/lp0
> =>crw-rw----  1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 20 14:45 /dev/lp0
> =>
> =>Does anyone know what I need to do to make it work?
> =>
> =>Do I need to load a driver or add something to modprobe.conf?
> =>
> =>TIA
> 
> I just have one more thing I want to add:
> 
> /proc/devices shows 
> Character devices:
>   6 lp
> 
> Also, lsmod shows
> parport_pc             29701  0 
> lp                     15405  0 
> parport                37129  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
> ppdev                  12613  0 
> 
> Anyone see something missing?
> 
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