On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Spencer Buckner <sbuck...@attglobal.net> wrote: > I am using System->Administration->Printing to configure an HP DeskJet 500 > printer connected to the parallel port of a stand-alone computer (not part > of a network). The HP DeskJet 500 is the only printer connected to the > computer and is specified to be the default printer. (snip) > I have seen messages from Ubuntu users with the same problems but have not > found any understandable fixes. Can anyone help?
SL6 does not have parallel port support (it was dropped upstream). But ELRepo comes to the rescue :-) http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-lp Try installing that package and see if that solves your problem. Akemi
