Problem with printer on parallel port.

[David Curry]

Kim Lux wrote:

>It didn't work.
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Please avoid top posting on fedora-list.

>On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:24 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
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>>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:56:18 -0500, Terry Polzin
>><fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>* I am being facetious here.  FC3 does support them, there is a bug
>>>>somewhere.
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>>>Add the following in your /etc/modeprobe.conf
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>>>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>>>options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto
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>>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?
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