My paralell port isn't recognized

[Mildred]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.15-25-686

Recently, I added in my computer a PCI card to add a paralell port to my computer in order to be able to connect my printer.
I thoudht my ubuntu dapper would be able to detect it and use it but the /dev/lp0 file does not exists. And I found the following message in dmesg :

[4294707.628000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found

Something strange is that I tried to boot with a Warty live-cd and the port is recognized ... and I can use it that way (unfortunately, I can't configure CUPS).

The card also provides two serial ports.
The description is aviable here : http://qtec.info/products/product.htm?artnr=12887

I tried to compile the kernel 2.6.17.3 from kernel.org using the config file from the ubuntu kernel but I did not succeed to boot with this new kernel, probably because I did not created any initrd image.

This is the output of lspci

0000:00:0c.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd PCI2S550 (Dual 16550 UART) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
        Subsystem: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 5079
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 169
        Region 0: I/O ports at 9000 [size=32]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]

[Mildred (mildred)]

I'm just testing Knoppix to see if it works, and it works.
Distribution : Knoppix 5.0.1 live-DVD
boot options : knoppix lang=fr desktop=gnome

$ dmesg | grep lp
[...]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready

$ lspci -vv -d 1409:7168
0000:00:0c.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd PCI2S550 (Dual 16550 UART) (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550])
        Subsystem: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 5079
        Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
        Region 0: I/O ports at 9000 [size=32]
        Region 2: I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
        Region 3: I/O ports at 9800 [size=8]

Is there any way to make it works in Ubuntu ? I don't want to reboot each time I want to print a document :(

[Leeladhar Dattatrey (ldattatrey)]

I am using ubuntu 7.04 as guest OS in VMware ESX server.
When I tried to access parallel port , it gave error” Permission Denied”

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still have this issue with the latest release of Ubuntu ?
 Leeladhar Dattatrey your problem is different, could you please open a new bug report ? Thanks.

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

Any news on this ?

[Jérôme Guelfucci (jerome-guelfucci-deactivatedaccount)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the package name, under the Affects column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!