Hi again, I earlier sent a message about problems I have been having getting a printer to work under kernel 2.4.0-test11. Well, I since have tried it under a 2.15 kernel on a laptop and got the same problem --- printer not active or something to that effect.
I also took the printer home where I have a computer (using a 2.4.0-test10 kernel) with a printer where everything works. I connected up the problem printer instead, and it doesn't work! Except that here the problem is a bit different. Here it doesn't say the printer is not active, or offline. On the contrary, it says that it is active and printing, the only problem is that all that happens, is that after a suitable period of time (1 minute or so, maybe 2) it claims to have finished printing when in actual fact nothing has printed at all! Now why this is different behaviour from the original desktop (and the laptop) I do not know. Perhaps because the more sophisticated parallel port communication stuff was compiled into the kernels of the former? I don't know. But the bottom line is that the printer doesn't seem to be working whichever computer I attach it to. I know that printing works for my home desktop, so it seems to me that it probably is a problem with the printer. I swapped cables and that didn't change matters, so it would seem to be a problem with the actual printer. It is a Canon BJC-4200. So, the question that I have is.... What should I do now? Should I just take the printer to some repair shop (can anyone recommend anyone?)? Or are there other simple things I could do to try and fix the problem? Is there something simple I am missing? Are there any other ways I could check whether it is really a problem with the printer? (I could always, shock, horror, try and use it under windows --- of course that would mean having to work out how to set it up under windows). Well I suppose this email is as much me thinking out aloud than anything else, but if anyone has some useful feedback, I'd love to hear it. Thanks, Mark. -- _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"