On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 14:59 +0100, Simon Tierney wrote: > I am trying to print to the parallel port on a printer via one of these > cables, which plugs to the usb port on the computer and and the > parallell port on the printer. > > The printer is not recognized when I probe for it using > system-config-printer. > > Does anyone know a way how to configure this please? No... Mine worked without me having to do anything convoluted, it was just the same as setting up a printer directly connected to the parallel port. As far as I can remember. If your device is usable with Linux, I'd expect it to be the same as how mine was. But you really should have said exactly what adapter you're using, and your printer, too. On occasions, I had to unplug and replug to get the device to be noticed. It's going to be a very long time, as far as I'm concerned, before computer/software designers properly get the concept of hot plugging, and make it so that plugging in something works as instantly, and error free, as plugging your 1970s headphones into the headphone socket on your stereo. Click, work. No fiddling about, nor waiting for the gear to sort itself out. A 2 GHz computer shouldn't take half a minute of thumb twiddling to figure out this stuff. It should happen so quick that you don't notice anything. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
