<snip> Thanks so much! I did need to rmmod in the correct order. I also had to use the full path to parport and parport_pc I still could not get it working until I called Netmos directly and talk to a real human who knew linux. I was leaving off the IRQ's as instructed by the SuSE documents, but this card requires them. So the steps to install were: rmmod lp rmmod parport_pc rmmod parport lspci -vv ;gives a listing of all pci devices #use the first and third address (they are paired) and the IRQ given #modify the modules.conf parport section insmod /path/to/parport/parport.o insmod /path/to/parport/parport_pc.o io=0x378,0xeff0,0xefa8 irq=7,11,11 modprobe /path/to/parport/parport modprobe /path/to/parport/parport_pc modprobe lp #check status with lpstat -t