On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Spencer Buckner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/17/2011 05:21 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Spencer Buckner <[email protected]> > 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.
> 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. > After installing kmod-lp and configuring the printer again, printing the > test page worked on the first try! > > Thank you very much. > > Spencer Glad to hear it worked. You are quite welcome (on behalf of Alan who built the package). Akemi
