Bad luck. Even with lp, ppdev, parport, parport_pc loaded and cupsys restarted, gnome-cups-add won't detect anything at all. Some kernel output:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | tail [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R300 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs pnp: Device 00:0a disabled. pnp: Device 00:0a activated. parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] parport0: Legacy device lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). ppdev: user-space parallel port driver -- cupsys does not automatically detect parallel printer https://launchpad.net/bugs/29050 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs