Bugzilla – Bug 132793
Parallel port is not connected
Last modified: 2005-11-09 13:17:05 UTC
The connection of the parallel port is not standard after installation of LINUX. First you must open the data /etc/modprobe.conf and remove the commentary sign '#' in line 'options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none'for driving printers on the parallel port. You must mind, that I am a professional computer user and programer and have no problems to find such a data like "/etc/modprobe.conf" with the register with correct lines. But a normal computer user, a layman must get many problems here!
hm, works for me: d159:~ # procinfo | grep parp irq 7: 0 parport0 d159:~ # grep parp /proc/ioports 0378-037a : parport0 d159:~ # grep parp /etc/modprobe.conf # Load lp after parport install parport /sbin/modprobe -i parport && /sbin/modprobe lp alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc # options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none # options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,none i also talked with our printer maintainer, this could happen, it depends on the hardware. I searched the bugzilla for more problems like this, you are the first one. So you need only to uncomment the line if you have problems with the parport, means autoprobing is not working.
*** Bug 132792 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***