Help with printing

[Cam Ellison <camellison@dccnet.com>]

I have been trying to get my Canon BJC-4000 running, with no success.  CUPS 
doesn't work, despite some assistance form this list.  Printtool tells me 
that I do not have parport compiled into the kernel, which is not the case 
(yes, I verified that it appears in dmesg, and I had my old dot-matrix 
printer running just fine before this started).

I'm beginning to think I have a hardware problem with the port itself, 
though there may be some software issue that I am missing.

Is there a diagnostic (I've been searching through Google and a couple of 
manuals I have without success) that will verify whether my parallel port 
is actually functional?

Does anyone have an idea what may be holding up progress?

TIA

Cam
 
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