Paralell Issues in StepConfig Cannot jog

This is the readout I get when I input the command in terminal


linuxcnc@linuxcnc-desktop:~$ dmesg I grep port
Usage: dmesg [-c] [-n level] [-r] [-s bufsize]
linuxcnc@linuxcnc-desktop:~$

I will attempt to access the linux BIOs and see if it is disabled there, thank you very much for the help thus far!

As Andy says, its a pipe bar not a capital 'i' (next to the left shift key on a UK keyboard anyway)

Still don't know what your computer is?

I am guessing older rather than newer because it has an AGP port and 66MHz bus

There are a few that have come up in the past which have proved very difficult to get the parport to work under Linux

Hi sorry for the late response, yes it is definitely a very old computer that I know for sure

The PIO port was disabled in the BIOS settings of my PC, thank you all very much for you help in getting this working, the motors are moving and I am happy with these results for now, next up is getting it configured correctly and working it with Linux CNC.

Thank you very much everyone!