On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:25:40 +0000 Colin Paul Adams wrote: > I have a laser printer which was working fine. Unfortunately the > computer to which it was attached (which was running Fedora 12) proved > to be sick. > > So I've tried moving the printer to two other computers in turn (one > 32-bit, one 64-bit) running Fedora 14. I cannot get it to work on either > of them. > > I get the message: > > lp: driver loaded but no devices found > > I tried googling which suggested trying: > > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=7,auto > > although this was rather an old message. I tried this and got: > > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.886574] parport 0x378 (WARNING): CTR: > wrote 0x0c, read 0xff > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.886579] parport 0x378 (WARNING): > DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.886581] parport 0x378: You gave this > address, but there is probably no parallel port there! > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.886601] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, > irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.967136] parport 0x278 (WARNING): CTR: > wrote 0x0c, read 0xff > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.967140] parport 0x278 (WARNING): > DATA: wrote 0xaa, read 0xff > Feb 5 16:14:17 susannah kernel: [ 582.967141] parport 0x278: You gave this > address, but there is probably no parallel port there!
The parallel interface may be disabled in BIOS. --Frank Elsner -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
