The original poster has reported the bug of parallel printers not being detected and that is not fixed yet. It is most probably a kernel problem.
The dmesg output of gcordoba says [17179596.504000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found So the "lp" kernel module did not find the printer. This must be caused by the kernel. So I add the kernel package to this bug. ** Also affects: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- cupsys does not automatically detect parallel printer https://launchpad.net/bugs/29050 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs