[wellylug] Re parallel port problem

[John Rye]

On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:44:20 +1300
Paul Daniel <thincritter at orcon.net.nz> wrote:

> Thanks for the below and for Jethro's reply also.
> 
> I appears to me that CUPS is all present and correct but it does not now
> have the option of parallel port when adding a printer. It only offers
> serial USB and the various network options.  OK... now I am thinking
> physical port problems.  It was always listed previously.  I just
> re-installed Vidalinux 1.1 and same problem.  Any other way to verify a
> parallel port problem?
> 

In the "old" days there was a check of the // port(s) during the boot
process, does your printer initialise when you reboot?

That's about the only way I think there is of testing/checking the //port
interface

Cheers

John
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