Since the first try with the on board parallel port failed because it was a 3.3V model, I ordered a new card from Newegg. The new card is a PCI card with one parallel port and two serial ports. Installing it under Ubuntu Linux was pretty easy. I just plugged it in and the serial ports were immediately recognized. The parallel port was recognized as well, but did not show up in any of the queries.
The command "lspci -v" correctly identified that I had the card installed.
To get the parallel port working all I had to do was type one line. But of course there wasn't any change to the lspci -v listing so I figured that it hadn't worked and spent a couple hours trying to trace down a problem that didn't exist. Sometimes its better to just do it.
This is the command that got my parallel port working. I then had to put the address into the EMC HAL configuration file.
/sbin/modprobe parport_pc io=0xdf00 irq=11