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| Joshc (j-w-crawley) wrote Re: Cannot set up parallel port printer on Ubuntu 9.04 | #11 |
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I have found a fix.
Im running Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop on an old machine. I have a HP Laserjet 4 via /dev/lp0
I lsmod'ed to make sure the appropriate modules were loaded. I then checked dmesg to see what was in there. And lpstat still showed no /dev/lp0 activity. My experience thus far mirrors everybody else.
The fix:
josh@comp1:~$ sudo modprobe parport_pc
After you type in your system passwd, you should see a line either on stdout or dmesg along the lines of
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,
After you modprobe the appropriate driver, /dev/lp0 will work and CUPS will alert you of a printer on that parallel port. To keep this working across reboots, add parport_pc to /etc/modules . It now should just work.