CUPS webface doesn't allow parallel port

[StevenFriedrich at InsightBB.com]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> StevenFriedrich at InsightBB.com wrote:
> >
> > I originally installed CUPS about a year ago.  It was version 1.1.18.  I have since upgraded to 1.1.20.
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE.
> >
> > When I installed 1.1.18, I noticed a quirk that I couldn't add a parallel printer unless it was turned on when the system booted.
> >
> > But under 1.1.20, it won't let me specify a parallel URI at all. On FreeBSD, /dev/lpt0 is the first parallel port (I also made a hard link to lp, to no avail).
> >
> > How is CUPS determining that a parallel port is a valid choice?
> >
> > I should mention that I hand edit printers.conf and my printer does work.
>
> If you just do
>  $libdir/backend/parallel
> (where $libdir is CUPS' lib directory, usually /usr/lib/cups),
> what does it tell then?
>
> If it remains silent, it thinks there is no parallel interface. Try this
> with
> (at least one) parallel printer(s) on and all parallel printers off.
>
>
> Helge
>
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> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
> H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
> H.Blischke at acm.org


Thanks for the response.

When my printer is on, I get:
direct parallel:/dev/lpt0 "Unknown" "Parallel Port #1 (interrupt-driven)"

when it's off, it's silent.

I do turn on my printer before I boot my system.