On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson
<mellert...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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


Output:
[root@acct ~]# modprobe parport_pc
[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc
[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc
[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_pc
[root@acct ~]# modprobe -v parport_serial
insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.40.4-5.fc15.x86_64/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_serial.ko

Some /var/log/messages lines (scattered in log):
Sep 13 11:45:57 acct kernel: [  203.612821] lp: driver loaded but no devices
found
Sep 13 11:50:11 acct kernel: [  456.604811] TCP lp registered

Dmesg:
[   24.762672] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[   24.871943] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver

>From the above it seems that the port on the parallel port pci card is not
being detected....but windows 7 which is dual-booted on the same machine is
printing through that same parallel port.

Can someone please help?

With best regards.
Sanjay.
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