Problem with printer on parallel port.

[Kam Leo]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:56:18 -0500, Terry Polzin
<fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> >On Tuesday 29 March 2005 01:26 pm, Kim Lux wrote:
> > 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.
> Add the following in your /etc/modeprobe.conf
> 
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
> 

The same fix was posted in February under "Printer does not work with
newer kernel versions".  Kim, you were a part of the dialog. Did you
even try the fix?