On 18 March 2011 20:08, 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 > After installing kmod-lp and configuring the printer again, printing the > test page worked on the first try! Excellent news. Thanks you for reporting back with details of your success. Alan. (On behalf of the ELRepo Project.)
