parrellel printer in CUPS? No parellel printer option...
I have an Epson parellel port printer I want to setup using CUPS under slackware.
I have actually done this before, but now I cannot do it. To add the printer I using mozilla connected to localhost:631. When it asks for the printer port I get everything BUT parellel option (i get usb, serial, ipp, scsi, etc). I had this same problem the before and chmod 0666 /dev/lp0 fixed it by a parellel port option magically showing up in the CUPS browser printer setup. It is not working this time. Did CUPS remove parallel printer support? What must I do? thanks. |
I know this sounds silly, but is that printer port turned on in the CMOS? The reason I ask, is that most modern motherboard BIOS have the ability to turn it off... ;)
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#### PC parallel port support ###
#if cat /proc/ksyms | grep "\[parport_pc\]" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then # echo "parport0 is built-in, not loading module" > /dev/null #else # if [ -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/misc/parport_pc.o \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/misc/parport_pc.o.gz \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/kernel/drivers/parport/parport_pc.o.gz ]; then # # Generic setup example: # /sbin/modprobe parport_pc # # Hardware specific setup example (required for PLIP and better # # performance in general): # #/sbin/modprobe parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 # fi #fi #### Parallel printer support ### #if cat /proc/ksyms | grep "\[lp\]" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then # echo "lp support built-in, not loading module" > /dev/null #else # if [ -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/misc/lp.o \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/misc/lp.o.gz \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/kernel/drivers/char/lp.o \ # -o -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/kernel/drivers/char/lp.o.gz ]; then # /sbin/modprobe lp # fi #fi in /etc/rc.0/rc.modules i think you have to remove all single #'s for the parallel port to be visible... if that does not work and you complied your own kernel... make sure the parallel port was compiled as a module... |
sweet. Now I have 3 parallel port options in the CUPS browser selection Parallel port #1 Canon, Parallel port #1 Epson, and just Parallel port #1...
My printer still is not printing though :( |
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