Re: I need help to get my parallel port working.

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On 4/19/10, Mark LaPierre <marklapier@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/17/2010 08:30 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I can not get my parallel port to connect to my printer.  The printer
>> was working with F8.  Then I upgraded to F10.  The printer has not
>> worked since.
>>
>> Now I have F12 32 bit installed.  I've tried everything I can think of
>> including messing with the CMOS settings from Yes PNP OS to No PNP OS.
>>
>> When I first started trying to diagnose this problem I used the
>> System/Administration  tools to debug the printer problems.  Several
>> problems, such as incorrect file ownership, were found and corrected.
>> Now I get no further issues when I print but I also get nothing coming
>> from the printer.  The printing queue says that the job is "Processing"
>> but askes, "Is the printer connected?"  Remember, this is the same
>> printer, and same cable that was working with F8.  Only the software has
>> been changed to confuse the innocent.
>>
>> I've uninstalled the printer driver and cups, rebooted the machine,
>> reinstalled cups.  Downloaded a current copy of the Linux driver from
>> the printer manufacturer and installed the driver.  No joy. :-(
>>
>> I've spent a couple of days poking around the internet looking for help
>> with this issue.  I've found a lot of people having problems getting
>> their parallel printers working with F12 that had worked with previous
>> versions of Fedora but none of those posts have helped.
>>
>> Here is the results of the poking around that I've done.
>> ************
>> lspci -v
>> 01:08.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O
>> Controller (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
>>       Subsystem: Device a000:2000
>>       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>>       I/O ports at bc00 [size=8]
>>       I/O ports at b480 [size=8]
>>       Memory at f8efe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>       Memory at f8efd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>>       Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>> ************
>> modprobe -c
>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
>> ************
>> lsmod | grep parport
>> parport_pc             17509  1
>> parport                27256  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
>> ************
>>
>> The ball's in your court now Y'all.  Does anyone have any ideas how I
>> can further diagnose the problem and get the printer singing again?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>
> I bought a new parallel cable.  No joy.
> I bought a USB to parallel cable.  The printer now makes noise but it's
> not happy printing noise.  Still no joy
> --



Reinstall FC8....
<can you partition drive and keep 8?>

Check to see how it works there...

If it still works??

YMMV

Marvin
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