[plug] /parport0/autoprobe ... shows no "parport*"... can't set up printer

[Daniel]

Hello All, 
another huge gap in my knowledge I wonder if you can help with please: 
(kernel 2.6.0-test2 .... I know it's a testing kernel but that's what
makes it interesting) 

cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe 
CLASS:PRINTER; 
MODEL:BJC-6200; 
MANUFACTURER:Canon; 
DESCRIPTION:Canon BJC-6200; 
COMMAND SET:BJL,BJRaster3,BSCC,TXT01,BJScan2; 

http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html
says "If there isn't a "parport0" subdirectory in "parport", then the
parallel port is probably not setup properly." 

Micro:~# modprobe parport 
FATAL: Module parport already in kernel. 

dmesg | grep lp
On node 0 totalpages: 130880
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
lp0: using parport0 (polling).

I've looked at 
http://www.linuxprinting.org/howto/html-single/#new-parport-device
but it seems to only refer to modules and as I can't find the parallel
port I'm wondering if I should have made it a module in the first place
and if there's a work around or if I need a new kernel compile. 

Guess it's probably something pretty simple I should know how to do but
don't so any help would be great. 

Thanks, 
Daniel. 
(ps - it worked right away with my last 2.4 - maybe I just jagged it)