I am running the following version of fedora: vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586. My system is a 3GHz Core 2 Duo on a Gigabyte P35 board and NVIDIA 8800GT. I have successfully installed the drivers for my HP LaserJet 6L as dictated here (*edit*: apparently, for some insanely stupid reason, I cannot link to HP's Linux page). I did a "sh hplip-3.9.6b.run", however, I am not prompted about whether I would like to enable LPT (parallel port) support, even though the HP link (which I can't post) says I should be prompted about whether I want LPT support. So I am taken to the final stages of HP's GUI printer installation, but then I am unable to select the LPT option because it's greyed out. So it looks like I've installed most of the files I need, just can't get LPT to be recognized.

Now, I did an "lsmod" as root user, and saw that my paraport and paraport_pc (i.e. parallel port) were present, and it's without question enabled in the BIOS (plus my secondary slave drive has an XP Pro installation that detects my parallel printer perfectly). Here is my lsmod output for all those interested in taking a look at it in detail:

Module Size Used by
vfat 8620 1
fat 41008 1 vfat
fuse 49748 2
sco 9356 2
bridge 41488 0
stp 1944 1 bridge
llc 4780 2 bridge,stp
bnep 10888 2
l2cap 18884 3 bnep
bluetooth 44776 5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc 152364 1
ip6t_REJECT 3160 2
nf_conntrack_ipv6 11368 2
ip6table_filter 3136 1
ip6_tables 10728 1 ip6table_filter
ipv6 232324 26 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
dm_multipath 13512 0
uinput 6496 0
snd_hda_codec_realtek 189436 1
snd_hda_intel 23920 2
snd_hda_codec 54264 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6580 1 snd_hda_codec
r8169 28232 0
snd_pcm 62520 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
ppdev 6296 0
snd_timer 17896 1 snd_pcm
iTCO_wdt 10448 0
snd 49044 10 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec, snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
i2c_i801 8056 0
parport_pc 22060 0
mii 4008 1 r8169
soundcore 5404 1 snd
pata_jmicron 2764 0
pcspkr 2156 0
iTCO_vendor_support 2736 1 iTCO_wdt
parport 28492 2 ppdev,parport_pc
snd_page_alloc 7572 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
usb_storage 82508 1
ata_generic 4312 0
pata_acpi 3668 0
nouveau 434524 1
drm 166212 2 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit 4836 1 nouveau
i2c_core 18056 4 i2c_i801,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit

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So, at this point, any suggestions would be much appreciated mates.