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Re: Parallel Port Issues
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
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Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:01:24 -0800
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Mark LaPierre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Anyone know how to find out if the parallel port is recognized?  I have a
> parallel port printer connected to my machine but I can't seem to get it
> working.  It was working with Fedora 14 32bit.  I just installed SL-6.1
> 64bit.

The upstream vendor dropped line-printer (lp) support as of RHEL-6.
However they re-enabled it in kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6. So, try
updating the kernel to the current version (or at least to
2.6.32-131.12.1). If this cannot be done for some reason, then
installing the kmod-lp package from ELRepo (
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-lp ) is another option.

Akemi

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