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NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Parallel Controller install howto for Ubuntu 9.04 (English)
2009, szeptember 29 - 22:13 - lazly
Im using ubuntu 9.04 and I tried install an old printer with a paralel card and its not working. /dev/lp0 is not exits so lots of google after I have an inswer. I wrote a little howto.
1, Access the card for your motherboard
2, # lspci
...
05:01.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller
...
3, # cat /proc/ioports | grep parport
<nothing>
4, # modprobe -r lp
# modprobe -r parport_pc
5, # lspci -v
...
05:01.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9865 Multi-I/O Controller (prog-if 03)
Subsystem: Device a000:2000
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
I/O ports at e880 [size=8]
I/O ports at e800 [size=8]
Memory at feb9f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at feb9e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
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6, # modprobe parport_pc io=0xe880
# modprobe lp
7, # /etc/init.d/cups restart
8, Use the official Ubuntu printer setup gui for others, in my machine is working
9, For reboot you must do these file edits
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0xe880
# cat /etc/modules
...
parport_pc
lp
...
Thanks your read. Lazly
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