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: j...@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,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] 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. -- Cannot set up parallel port printer on Ubuntu 9.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369850 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
