Comment 30 for bug 369850

Hi all,

I am having a similar problem, however, I am a bit new to Ubuntu. I went through the steps written by Joshc:

>josh@comp1:~$ sudo modprobe parport_pc
>
>After you type in your system passwd, you should see a line either >on stdout or dmesg along the lines of

>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 >[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]

>After you modprobe the appropriate driver, /dev/lp0 will work and >CUPS will alert you of a printer on that parallel port. To keep this >working across reboots, add parport_pc to /etc/modules . It now >should just work.

However, what does he mean concerning modprobe the appropriate driver? I have down a "man" on modprobe, but it really doesn't help me. I have a HP LaserJet 4P that is currently not recognized by the printer setup (I only get a setup for a serial printer which does not work:-) ).

The directions Joshc gave were great, but I'm not sure how to use the modprobe command here...

Also, I have already added the parport_pc to the etc/modules file as shown below:

rich@ubuntu:~$ more /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
rtc
sbp2
parport_pc

Thanks a bunch for the help!

Rich