When I boot fc14 with an already defined printer connected on the parallel port, then I can use the printer. The printer appears on parallel:/dev/lp0. But, if the printer is not connected during startup, when I connect the printer I cannot use it. Nothing happens. I have no corresponding message using "dmesg" command when I connect the printer.
I cannot make cups see that the printer is connected, using "localhost:631" in firefox. Is it possible to "mount" the printer manually? Using "system-config-printer", the printer has to be "activated", even though it is not used or even connected. Then "parport" module is installed during boot (with other related modules: "ppdev" and "parport_pc").
Then, when the printer is connected, "dmesg" shows :
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
And, of course, it is now OK to use the printer.
It's some years since I last used Fedora. I'm looking at Fedora 14 KDE spin and trying to figure out how to install my old HP Laserjet parallel port printer. In the printer configuration utility I can only find options for network printers. I can't find any option to add a local printer.
My new Shuttle runs Debian fine, but like most new systems, the old serial and parallel ports are long gone. I have no problems with the serial port - there is a Sourceforge driver to use with most PL-2303 type USB to Serial adapter cables. But, I am having trouble googling up the USB to Parallel connection. There are no lack of USB/Parallel cables, but all that I have found come with canned software for Windows and only for connecting a printer. I have several non-printer devices that connect via the P-Port that I access using a Perl driver from CPAN. Anybody know of an open source *nix driver for any particular USB/PP cable? Or had any experience in moving from the straight PP to a USB/PP connection to a non-printer device?
I currently cannot get my printer to work (nothing ever get's printed) even though CUPS seems to be correctly configured and reports all jobs as "completed" without any errors. As I know that my printer works (I can print from my laptop on it) I currenty suspect my new PC's parallel port to maybe have a hardware issue. My question is now is there any way to check the parallel port?
Here are some details: from dmesg: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). from lsmod: parport 27954 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
In the BIOS the mode is set to EPP. So as far I can see (I am not really an expert) the kernel-modules are there, /dev/lp0 exists and has the proper permissions. Yet doing 'echo -en " Hello f" >/dev/lp0' does not produce any Putout on my printer that is connected via the parallel port.
I installed SuSE 11.2 64-bit on a new computer without any printer attached. When I read the manual for the mainboard, I discovered to my delight that it actually has a parallel port, it's just not connected. I moved the cable from an old desktop and put it into my new desktop. After enabling the port in the BIOS setup, the Hardware Information dialog in yast correctly shows that I have a HP LaserJet 1100 (/dev/lp2).
How do I configure the printer? "Printer" in yast tells me "There is no print queue". When I click "Add" yast tries to detect a printer and gives up with the message "No connection selected". I can't add a selection, however. "More connections" gives me the exact same error message. The "Connection Wizard" allows me to select "Parallel Port", but then complains about missing connections again. The cups demon is running. I don't have /dev/lp2, is that the problem?
I have an old, but still usable, HP Deskjet Plus inkjet printer that I have connected to the parallel port of my Fedora 13 box. I can (apparently) configure the printer using the usual print configuration tools, and have selected the recommend foomatic driver (HP DeskJet Plus Foomatic/pcl3 (recommended)) - but when I try to print the test page the job gets queued and nothing else happens. The jobs simply show as pending in the printer queue.
Current uri is parallel:/dev/lp0.
As a side note, my Epson printer on the USB port works fine, but it's using CUPS + Gutenprint v5.2.6 Simplified. Should I be trying something with a different (e.g. CUPS) driver, or a different way of specifying the foomatic driver, or what?
I just replaced F14 with F15 (clean install). Now, when I try to add my HP Deskjet 710 printer I'm not seeing any option to select the parallel port. I've tested the hardware with an old F10 live CD, and every thing's okay there. Does the parallel port still exist in F15, or has it been nuked?
This post is for an HP parallel printer but I think it should work for at least "some" other parallel printers.I am sure that someone smarter than me will follow up this post with a "well, just do this and that" and you will have your HP Laserjet 6P printer ready to go, but since questions litter the forums of MANY distros on how to get "at least" an HP parallel printer to work, I'll post this anyway.This may or may not work for you if you do not have an HP but you can try it.The install printer box will let you do an install for an HP Parallel and it asks for how it is to talk to it, through CUPS sock or "local host'. When we get through what I recommend you should chose "local host".
So if I do dmesg | tail and find out that lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready [root@Juha Juha.Koskiniemi]# cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
What is it fro following? lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa) 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev aa) 02:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 02) 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (rev 03) 02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
And how to evaluate the list of cat /proc/bus/usb/devices? I am asking this since seems that parport is recognized but why I can not access the it to via gtkteminal by using /dev/lp0 QGtkStyle cannot be used together with the GTK_Qt engine. Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported opening failed How to edit thread header since the misspelling?
I have a Panasonic 3123 dot matrix printer which I am trying to get working on my Dell Vostro 420 running 11.3 (x64). Since Dell decided to eliminate on board parallel ports from their systems I've added one with a Startech PCI1PECP PCI card (uses a NETMOS NM9805CV chipset). I've confirmed that the printer works using an old laptop running Windows 2k with a LPT port running in ECP mode. When attached to my desktop the printer will (usually) shift the pin carriage etc when I perform a cold boot but will not respond when sent a test page in yast or cups (it is detected after a fashion and I have assigned the appropriate ppd from the Omni package).
The following is the relevant out put from lspci, lsmod and dmesg: Code: 05:00.0 Communication controller: Device 1710:9805 (rev 01) Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Device 0010 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx- .....
Code: E [28/Oct/2010:11:59:44 -0400] Unable to bind socket for address ::1:631 - Cannot assign requested address. E [28/Oct/2010:12:05:04 -0400] Unable to bind socket for address ::1:631 - Cannot assign requested address. E [28/Oct/2010:12:08:52 -0400] [cups-driverd] Skipping "/usr/share/ppd": loop detected!
I've been running an old DOS app that reads and writes the parallel port bits to do a control task. Its worked great running on Ubuntu 6.06 but I can't get the version on 10.04 to read and write the actual hardware. I can't find what is missing from the configuration, as I recall all I did on 6.06 was edit /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf to uncomment the line:
$_ports = $_ports, " device /dev/lp0 range 0x378 0x37a" in the "Direct Hardware access" section and start the xdosemu session as root. The process runs in the background and has "just worked" for years. This has got me stuck as the last step of migrating from 6.06 to 10.04 -- everything except this, postfix, samba, etc. couldn't have been easier, but I'm stuck now
Yes the new motherboard parallel port is set for 0x378 and it shows in /proc/ioports. I guess it could be defective, but the software reads back the values it writes and thinks its working, its just none of the outputs change and changes on the inputs are not read so the code is stuck waiting for the initial response to its first output.
For several months I now and then tries to get my 64-bit installation to work satisfactory. My 32-bits work but not as good as my 10.3 versions. Last problem is the parallel port. Neither cups or yast finds the printer. Hardware probing gives this:
I have been tinkering around with CUPS for the last few days trying to get print sharing to work. Did not have problems printing documents from this desktop. When I went to print a document I found that my printer was not listed. Using localhost:631/admin shows lists the printer, but when I open System->Administration->Printing, the window opens (after a few seconds), grays out, and a blank display. The option to add a printer is grayed out.
In terminal window: lpstat -v lpstat: Connection timed out lpinfo -v lpinfo: Connection timed out What happened to the parallel port?
I am a newbie to VirtualBox. I have installed it on my Fedora 13 and installed win xp sp3 as a guest system and its ok except for 1 or 2 issues. I have a usb to paralel converter for the printer (Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port) which is greyed out in usb devices if I log as a normal user althought when I log to the Win XP as root it works fine 9 seems to be rights issue but don't know where to go. Second issue: I have a modem which is no discovered by the win XP.
I have a little hardware project and I would like to use the parallel port. I basically want to display status code on top of other custom peripheral on an headless server. I only use output as the display (7 segment) is not part of the device itself. The problem is, the parallel port only have 8 standard I/O pins. I have read somewhere that there is a way to change the mode of the port to enable more data pins using a specification not backward compatible with the "classic" mode (so not enabled by default). I didn't find any other information about this. As I would like to have all 17 non-ground pin to avoid using more circuitry than necessary, how to turn this mode on?
I use pm-suspend (from pm-utils-0.99.3-10.el5.centos.386) to put my CentOS computer (kernel 2.6.18-164.el5PAE) to sleep (power consumption decreases from 66 to 4 W). Hitting the computer power button reactivates the computer. But the parallel port connected HP LaserJet 6L no longer prints. Michael Sweet suggested this sounds like a parallel port driver isn't compatible with pm-suspend. Is there anything faster than shutting the computer down and restarting it to enable its parallel port printer? (After pm-suspend, command "reboot" fails to restart CentOS.)
I like the way 10.04 lts is running on my old PC, except I can't seem to install my HP 895C. This printer worked on previous releases on Ubuntu. The printer is local and cabled to the PC's parallel port. But "Add" under printing doesn't show any parallel printers under local printers. Only shows serial port, other, and network printers. Is this because 10.04 is beta? "Troubleshooting printers" doesn't have a list of printers. Is the lpt1 in PC speak /dev/lp0 in Linux? Should that be the printer URI?
I have a parallel printer working on a desktop. I want to share it with my laptop, but I don't want to have to use samba. Both have ubuntu 10.04 installed.
I'm sure it can be done, but I'll be darned if I can find anything in the skimpy admin. tools.
openSUSE 11.3 question: I have a PCI parallel port adapter (Syba SD-PEX-NM1P) that should "only" need to be told what ports and irq to use with parport_pc but, for the life of me, I can't make it happen. Using lspci -v, I can see it uses irq 19 (it that 19 or 0x19???) and ports 0xc800, 0xc400, 0xc000, 0xb800, 0xb400 (all 8 bit), and 0xb000 (16 bit). This is confirmed by the YaST2 hardware information tool.
Doing modprobe parport_pc io=0xb000 irq=0x19 should do something useful but I get no result at all. There is no /dev/lpt1 - a /dev/parport(n - where n is a digit) shows up on occasion but I can't figure out when it appears or why. cat foo >& /dev/parport(n) - where foo contains "hello world <FF>" doesn't do anything on the printer. Using the YaST2 printer tool, even the HP tool (the printer is an HP LJ-5P), is fruitless.
Just updated to Suse 11.3, in past versions, including 11.2 I could activate my Epson parallel scanner this way:
Modify this file removing the '#' form the line '#epson' /etc/sane.d/dll.conf Modify this file to indicate which port to use, like this: /etc/sane.d/epson.conf # epson.conf # here are some examples for how to configure the EPSON backend # SCSI scanner: scsi EPSON # for the GT-6500: scsi "EPSON SC" # Parallel port scanner: #pio 0x278 pio 0x378 #pio 0x3BC
It doesn't work anymor, the parallel port is apparently active since I can do: ls -l /dev/lp0 And I get: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Dec 22 19:51 /dev/lp0
My boot time seems to be relatively slow & looking through the log file I notice that "ppdev: user-space parallel port driver" takes about 25 seconds to load.Is this normal/necessary to load? My laptop is a toshiba satellite pro running 10.04.
I am trying to get a startech pcmcia parallel port working on my laptop and I just can't seem to get it going. here is my lcpci -v info on the card.
Code: 07:00.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Disabled) (rev 01) (prog-if 06) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device 0000 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20 I/O ports at 4020 [size=8] I/O ports at 4028 [size=8] I/O ports at 4030 [size=8] I/O ports at 4038 [size=8] I/O ports at 4000 [size=32] Memory at 2c000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: serial
07:00.1 Non-VGA unclassified device: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (parallel port) (rev 01) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd Device 0000 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 20 I/O ports at <unassigned> [disabled] I/O ports at <unassigned> [disabled] I/O ports at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel modules: parport_pc
I do not know why it is not assigning it an io address. I should also add that the parallel port is enable in the bios with the default address of 0x0378. I have also tried modprobe parport parport_pc and parport_cs and ppdev, still nothing.
I have an old HP Laserjet 5L which is connected to the parallel port of my computer. I could hp-setup to configure the printer. It is connected to hp:/par/HP_Laserjet_5L?device=/dev/parport0
Everytime a want to print the printer is stopped with the error message /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp failed (tried to print as root and as a normal user doesn't work)
If I try to print directly to the device works with echo "test" > /dev/lp0
but it does not work with echo "test" > /dev/parport0
the permissions are set to crw-rw---- 1 root scanner 6, 0 28. Jan 14:54 /dev/lp0 crw-rw---- 1 root scanner 99, 0 28. Jan 14:54 /dev/parport0
My Distribution is archlinux with all updates installed.
I was trying out the parallel port communication on RHEL 6 but found it not working: #echo hello > /dev/parport0 write error :Invalid argument". #ll > "/dev/lp0" /dev/lp0:No such device or address
I use (open) SUSE since version 7.1 and never had any trouble using my HP Laserjet 4L. So I hardly paid any attention to the installation after installing OpenSuse 11.2. Until I tried to print something from OpenOffice.org and my printer started printing empty pages with a first page with some garbage. It looked like a wrong driver. Suse recognized the printer without any trouble and installed - what seemed the correct - driver. I tried several other drivers from the list but they all gave the same result.
Something wrong with the printer - which functions already more than ten years? I tried it on Windows Vista (dual boot on the same computer) and Vista printed without any problem a correct test page. So nothing wrong with the printer. I tried a live CD with Ubuntu 9.10. And Ubuntu gave the same problem as OpenSuse: printing a line with garbage and empty pages. Is something wrong with the kernel?
After a fresh install of suse 11.4, Yast cannot configure my local printer (Epson Epl-5700) because there is no parallel port available. How can I make parallel ports work?
I have a printer that is not getting a device node assigned at boot.The printer is attached with a USB to Parallel (IEEE-1284) adapter cable.When I plug in the usb cable when the machine is running, the printer is assigned the device node: /dev/usb/lp0
I am guessing that during startup, the printer device is not detected since it is plugged in over an adapter cable which may be considered a device in itself?This is for a retail store, and we rely on the printer to pop the cash drawer open, so it kinda has to work without a "secret handshake".Unfortunately our workstations do not have Parallel ports. I would be happy to share terminal output, udev info, I'll write you a poem but I could sure use a helping hand- I'm stumped!
