PCI parallel port disabled with Wheezy / Linuxcnc 2.7

I have my system up and running on Ubuntu Lucid and LinuxCNC 2.5. I am trying to upgrade to upgrade to wheezy / Linuxcnc 2.7 via the Live/Install CD and am running into issues with the parallel port card I am using.

lspci -vv Give me the following:
03:00.0 Parallel controller: NetMos Technology Device 9900 (prog-if 03 [IEEE1284])
Subsystem: Device a000:2000
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 7
Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [disabled]
Region 1: I/O ports at c800 [disabled]
Region 2: [virtual] Memory at fdbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Region 5: [virtual] Memory at fdbfe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>

I tried to follow the instructions detailed here ( wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?NetMos ) but without success.

Any help / tips would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Arnie

When upgrading a parallel port config from version 2.5 to 2.7 there was minor change in how the parallel port driver is configured.
linuxcnc.org/docs//2.7/html/getting-star..._configuration_files
You have to remove this line from any of your hal files.
[coded]loadrt probe_parport[/code]

I wasn't clear in my initial post - I did a clean install of Weezy and Linuxcnc in a new partition and created the configuration from scratch using stepconf. Just to be sure, I checked the HAL files and they look good as far as I can tell.

So is this the same hardware you were using with your old 2.5 install? Or is this a new pc and/or different parallel port card?

Yep - same PC, parallel port card and hardware. The old partition with 2.5 is still up and running. It seem as if the change from Lucid to Wheezy may be the problem. I am stuck trying to figure out why the port is showing up as disabled when I run the lspci -vv command. This wasn't an issue with the old install.

Thank for all of your help!

What is the section of dmesg before and after following the instructions on the wiki, with relation to driving loading & unloading ?

May give some insight as to what is happening.