Cannot add parallel printer

[Pavel Mlčoch]

When I try configure my HP DJ400 on parallel cable, I dont see in detected priters area and in priter ports dropdown I cant see parrallel. There is SCSI, serial, etc. but not parallel.
In kernel I have instaled module parport and parport_pc, but in /dev/ I cant see some lp0 or other device. I dont know whats wrong. In breeze I hadnt problem with It.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please could you set the parport mode in the BIOS to EPP and try again? which kernel do you use?

[Pavel Mlčoch (pavkamlc)]

I tried set parport mode to EPP, but nothing new.
About kernel:

pavka@pavka:~$ uname -a
Linux pavka 2.6.15-21-k7 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Apr 21 17:10:51 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
pavka@pavka:~$ lsmod | grep par
parport_pc 38340 0
parport 39560 1 parport_pc
pavka@pavka:~$ dmesg | grep par
[4294687.614000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[4294687.614000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
pavka@pavka:~$

[Costas Koulierakis (ckoul)]

I have exactly the same problem.

- parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
- parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
- parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 460

Trying to add the printer in 'gnome-cups-manager' the printer is not detected and in 'Printer Port' field the only entry that appears is 'hp no_device_found' (if I stop the 'hplip' service the field is empty (i.e. no entries to select)).

Same kernel with 'pavkamlc', updating daily.

[Costas Koulierakis (ckoul)]

The 'lp' module isn't loaded.

sudo modprobe lp

and you should get entries for parallel port in gnome-cups-manager.

I'll try to find why the lp module isn't loaded automatically.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, this is due to bug 40826. Please edit '/etc/modules' as root and add 'lp', so that it'll get loaded at boot. You can do it like this:

echo lp | sudo tee -a /etc/modules