Parallel port not working

Sorry I don't the old computer motherboard died installed new wheezy on old drive. I did use the drop down menu and selected Sherline 3axis when starting linuxcnc.

All that is really likely to be wrong is the base address of the parallel port.

The first thing to try is just "0" and let Linux try to find the first parallel port for you.

Sorry I'm a total noob is this what you mean netstat -0
Thanks
Norm

No, in the HAL file when it has "loadrt hal_parport" make the address 0. (or, use 0 as the address in Stepconf, if you are using stepconf)