Problem with printer on parallel port.

[Kim Lux]

It didn't work.


On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:24 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> 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?
> 
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Kim Lux,  Diesel Research Inc.