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I removed and added my printer several times, now i can add what i want, he tells my that he can't find module "parport_probe".

As i looked at another machine, i could not find ANY module with that name. But there all works well (inclusive adding).

 

I tried with firewall off, no difference. No internetsharing, just a single machine.

Any Ideas???

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A few things to look for/try that might give some helpful info:

 

1.run:

$ cat /proc/devices

and see if there is an "lp" listed;

 

2.run:

# lsmod

and see if there is a module "lp" listed;

 

3. Make sure your printer is turned on and try printing directly as root:

# ls > /dev/lp0

This pipes the ls command directly to your printer and the directory listing should be printed out. This assumes your printer is lp0; if not, substitute the right number instead of 0.

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Back at my Mandrake box at home and just ran lsmod. The only modules that I see that look like they would effect a parrellel port printer are: lp, parport, and parport_pc. Check to see if you have all three. I don't see any module parport_probe in mine. Also, did you get any error messages when you tried 3?

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you should install those modules in the following order: parport, parport_pc, lp as:

 

~$ for module in parport parport_pc lp; do insmod $module; done

 

then do pmpatrick's third step (ls > /dev/lp0)

 

I suggest you to remove any printer-related module, and then install those three to test your printer

 

[to uninstall the modules you should proceed in the reverse order using rmmod]

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As aru suggest to tyme..you'll have to rebuild the kernel.

 

from make xconfig>Parallel port Suport>SuperIO chipset support (EXPERIMENTAL)

CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO:

 

Saying Y here enables some probes for Super-IO chipsets in order to

find out things like base addresses, IRQ lines and DMA channels.  It

is safe to say N.

The default is set to N (no) meaning you won't find it til you compile it in.

 

google

http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/axp-ke...t/msg00248.html

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_b...ug.cgi?id=26996

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