Hi, I'm running Debian Etch (testing) and after upgrading to the debian kernel version 2.6.12-1-686, my parallel port printer no longer seems to work. What I mean is that Debian doesn't seem to be able to communicate with it. Everything is physically plugged in: power and parallel cable.
After running lsmod, I find that the modules lp, parport, and parport_pc are all loaded. I don't believe I need any other modules do I? My boot log, /var/log/boot, says that parport_pc was loaded successfully. I'm using CUPS and my printer is an HP LaserJet 5L. I use the foomatic/ghostscript driver ljet4 (as recommended by www.linuxprinting.org), along with a PPD file acquired from www.linuxprinting.org. When I view the printer at http://localhost:631, it says "Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0" even though /dev/lp0 exists. When I try to print a test page from http://localhost:631, it says "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." on http://localhost:631. NOW, here is the important part. after sending a print command, I check dmesg, and 3 new lines are outputted: parport0: FIFO is stuck parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio DMA write timed out Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with this information. But I do know that my printer worked fine using CUPS and the same driver on an older 2.6.8 kernel. I suppose it could be a bug, in which case I should probably report it to the Bug Tracking System. But I don't know which package I should put it under, since there are linux-image-2.6, linux-image-2.6-686, linux-image-2.6.12-1-686. Anyway, I've tried to be as informative as I can, but if you need more information I can give it to you. If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------