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On Friday 07 March 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it |
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> should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point |
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> where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It |
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> does not offer me a parallel port choice for the device. My kernel is |
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> built with parallel port support and I have modprobed parport and |
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> parport_pc: |
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> catherine ~ # lsmod | grep parport |
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> parport_pc 32868 0 |
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> parport 26696 1 parport_pc |
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> And dmseg is aware of the printer: |
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> catherine ~ # dmesg | grep -i print |
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> parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C88 |
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> But on the CUPS interface, I can choose from |
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> AppSocket/HPJetDirect |
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> Backend Error Handler |
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> HP Printer (HPLIP) |
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> Internet Printing Protocol (http) |
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> Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) |
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> LPD/LPR Host or Printer |
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> SCSI Printer |
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> Serial Port #1 |
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> but no parallel port. It used to be on there. How can I get it back, or |
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> is parallel port called something else now? |
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Haven't tried it myself, but have you tried HPLIP? Also, check gentoo-wiki |
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for configuring it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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