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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Parallel port printing (Ubuntu) Linux

If you are having problems getting your VMWare on (Ubuntu) Linux to print to old fashioned centronics (parallel) interfaces, this is the page for you.

I followed pretty much everything on that page but in my setup I was being caught out by the fact that CUPS appears to load the lp module, so I need to both stop the CUPS daemon and rmmod the lp module in order to free up the parallel port parport0 for vmware.

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