[ILUG] RH 6.1 printer problem

[Lars Hecking]

 I'm trying to get a DeskJet 850 C to work under RedHat 6.1.
 Emphasis on "trying".

 Starting with no printcap file, I run printtool (as root).
 Select local printer. Result:

 autodetection:   /dev/lp0  not detected
                  /dev/lp1  not detected
                  /dev/lp2  not detected

 They do exist, though:

# cd /dev
# ls -al lp*
crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
crw-rw----   1 root     daemon     6,   2 May  5  1998 lp2

 I checked /var/log/messages and found

Mar  2 11:01:40 xxxxxxxxx lpd: lpd startup succeeded
Mar  2 11:01:40 xxxxxxxxx lpd[481]: lp: no line printer device or host name
Mar  2 11:05:21 xxxxxxxxx modprobe: can't locate module parport_lowlevel
Mar  2 11:05:21 xxxxxxxxx modprobe: can't locate module parport_lowlevel

 Grepping through the kernel source, I find no indication that such a
 module actually exists, and it certainly isn't under /lib/modules.

 Any ideas?

 RedHat 6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20, lpr 0.48-1.