I have some problem with CUPS in Slack 10.0
According to CUPS, I have USB ports, tens of serial ports, Samba but no PARALLEL port to which my old Canon BJC-240 is connected.
When I type 'echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0' it works fine but it no good for me when I want to print my curriculum (I reeaally need a new job!)

In /etc/rc.d/rc.modules, there is a section that is commented out by default for the parport_pc module. It's entitled "### PC parallel port support ###"

Uncomment this, and reboot.

Even better, and if you're confident that your parallel port's io address is 0x378, and irq is 7, just uncomment the line:

/sbin/modprobe parport_pc io=0x387 irq=7

which almost all computers use. Try it in a terminal first and make sure it doesn't hang your computer! Specifying the irq gives much better performance (it enables interrupts) but it will hang if you use the wrong number. Your BIOS can probably tell you the right number.

I also uncommented the section for the lp module, entitled "### Parallel printer support ###", which immediately follows the parport_pc section.

Tanx, I guess I ought to look more closely to those rc files .. one day.

Now I can get a new job

mikieboy, you're right about uncommenting the file, but he doesn't need to reboot, just type the lines he uncomments on the terminal as root and he'll get the same effects. Of course, uncommenting the line will do the stuff on each reboot.