Re: lp card not found
On 10/17/20 12:14 PM, George N. White III wrote:
Doesn't look like linux is supported.
Hi George,
I asked them about it. This is what they responded
(He misspelled that last modprobe):
Sorry for the delay, Linux isn't exactly my expertise, so it took
a little long to verify the Parallel-PCIe in Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) 64-bit.
I didn't do the full installation, so my testing is limited to the Live version which
I ran off OS off a USB Flash Drive.
That being said, the Parallel PCIe card does appear to work in the OS. It doesn't
detect automatically like our PCI cards do, however I was able to reconfigure the port, as
substitute user, with the following commands:
> modprobe -r lp
> modprobe -r parport_pc
> modprobe parport_pc io=0x378,0xee00 irq=7,11
> modprode lp
Once configured I was able to detect both a HP Laser Jet and an old Epson dot matrix
printer and was able to dump a print job to the Epson.
The Laser Jet appears to have given up the ghost long ago, so I couldn't use it to
test the port in Fedora, but I don't believe that was an issue with our card.
Hopefully that helps,
-T