On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Mark LaPierre <[email protected]> wrote: > Anyone know how to find out if the parallel port is recognized? I have a > parallel port printer connected to my machine but I can't seem to get it > working. It was working with Fedora 14 32bit. I just installed SL-6.1 > 64bit.
The upstream vendor dropped line-printer (lp) support as of RHEL-6. However they re-enabled it in kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6. So, try updating the kernel to the current version (or at least to 2.6.32-131.12.1). If this cannot be done for some reason, then installing the kmod-lp package from ELRepo ( http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-lp ) is another option. Akemi
