Parallel Printer Port Problem

["Jeffrey S. Coppock" <jcoppock@shastanets.com>]

Anyone,

I recently got the newest Dell Latitude CPx laptop and I've installed it with stable 2.2.18.  I've got about everything worked out but the sound and the parallel printer port.  I need help with the parport.  It won't work.  Here's everything I can think of to help:

- parport and parport_pc support are compiled into the kernel as modules
- parallel printer is compiled as well with printer readback turned on.
- modprobe shows the following:

root-bash# modprobe -d parport
=============================================
Module parport
kname parport
objkey parport
names: parport
mode: NORMAL
Module matching parport: /lib/modules/2.2.18-3/misc/parport.o
=============================================

- syslog has this to say:

Jan  2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
Jan  2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport_probe: failed
Jan  2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Jan  2 18:21:35 localhost kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).

* I think that printer readback is the 1284 thing.

any help is appreciated...jc