Please cc: me on any responses.

This is an old chain, but I wanted to reply to a couple of suggestions I
got a month ago. You may remember the problem is that I can print to a
USB printer from one system, but another nearly identical one, getting
error -84 from the kernel after the first page comes out.

Actually, the situation is even a little more complicated: I have two
identical multimedia bases (provides the USB ports etc. for the systems),
two nearly identical laptops, and two identical printers (by identical, I
mean the same make and model, etc..).  Everything works except one laptop
in one base with one printer, where I get the error -84 hundreds of times
in the syslog.

But here's a response to some earlier questions/suggestions:

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:46:25AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 12:38:06 -0400 Adam Kessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I'm trying to have two systems plugged into the same printer, one
> | parallel and one USB. It's a kludge (I suppose a parallel switch or
> | networking might make more sense), but this seemed to be the simplest
> | way, given that the computers are not now networked, and that I have no
> | parallel switch.
> Please let us/me know if this kind of kludge works.

This kludge does, indeed, work.  One Brother printer with both parallel
and USB interface; I'm able to connect both computers to it and print
fine.

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:59:16PM +0100, Ged Haywood wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2003, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > I've just installed the same kernel on both OmniBooks as well as the same
> > version of cups (1.1.19candidate1-3).
> Simplify things.
> Get rid of CUPS (temporarily at least) and print directly to the device?

I get the same problems when I try to print directly to the device, minus
CUPS.

--Adam

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