-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/11/2011 12:01 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: > Hello > > I have installed Fedora 15 on Intel DH67BL motherboard & Intel > I7-2600 Processor. Since I need to print to a Dot Matrix printer on > LPT: I added a PCI Card providing a Parallel & a Serial Port. On the > box it says Linux supported, but does not provide any driver. > Literature inside says use Parport drivers. > > BIOS shows the card installed, identifies it as 32 bit/33 MHz, and > shows Vendor/Device Id as <4348:5053>. But there are no options to > enable/disable or change any settings, so I think rest is all > software driver related. > > I need to initialize the parport driver automatically at boot time. > Can someone provide instructions or point to a resource. Net search > on parport is yielding low level programming links, but I just need > to initialize the parallel port to install a dot matrix printer. > > Please help. > Sanjay. > Try running "modprobe parport_pc" as root, and see if that enables the card. Also, if I remember correctly, the device name will not be lp0. But I can not remember the name. If you want to use the serial port, you will probably have to load parport_serial as well. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5tDwoACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSgswCeLdh/Kf4dss7TRC0q/woCANUS 67MAnj4kIDgwXixFq7FqoUZDnAYFDnXK =UQBe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
