[NTLUG:Discuss] Parallel Port Update

[Stephen Davidson]

Greetings.

Attached printer Parallel to USB Adapter (took 2 minutes).  Attached
Adapter to a MS 7 machine (took 30 seconds).  MS Plug & Play kicked in,
took 10 minutes to find driver.  Added Printer (MS to 30 minutes to
download drivers, and another 10m to install).
Total time: approx 45 minutes.

Printer now works and is shared.

So far on Linux, 5 days spent researching and experimenting, and no
closer then when I started;

steve at walter ~ $ uname -a
Linux walter 3.16.0-38-generic #52~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 8 09:44:48
UTC 2015 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux

===
Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.124109] lp: driver loaded but no
devices found
Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.183240] ppdev: user-space parallel
port driver
Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.249227] parport_pc 00:08: reported
by Plug and Play ACPI
Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.249308] parport0: PC-style at
0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
Sep 19 10:04:25 walter kernel: [   15.344403] lp0: using parport0
(interrupt-driven).

===
Sep 19 10:41:19 walter kernel: [ 2233.044022] parport0: FIFO is stuck
Sep 19 10:41:19 walter kernel: [ 2233.092023] parport0: BUSY timeout (1)
in compat_write_block_pio
Sep 19 10:41:29 walter kernel: [ 2243.092029] DMA write timed out

Any suggestions on how to get this working on Linux?

Regards,
Steve