Problem with printer on parallel port.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Mar 29th 2005 at 11:24 -0800, quoth 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?

Looks like we might be getting somewhere.

I added the above two lines to the end of my modprobe.conf
Then I ran depmod -a (Do I still need this?)

Then I said:

[root at saturn steveo]# cat rcn.ps > /dev/lp0
-bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address

What am I missing?

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