Mate, I don't know what the IEEE-1284 standard is (Printer Centronics
standard?) but it sounds like it's trying to talk to the printer but it's
not getting anything from it.
Is it by chance that it's the printer cable? Where you able to boot off a
DOS (good ol' DOS test) disk and print to LPT1 and see if you get a result?
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
-----Original Message-----
From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2000 7:04 PM
To: Mail List - SLUG; Mail List - CLUG
Subject: [SLUG] Problems with printers again
A few weeks ago I asked a question about a Compaq Presario running RH6.1
not being able to find /dev/lp0, /dev/lp1, /dev/lp2 in printtool.
The solution was to ensure that this line was in /etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Well I have another of these mothers that is doing the same thing, only
this time this line is in the /etc/conf.modules file.
This 'puter was printing OK to an old Epson, but I needed to change the
printer definition in printtool so I deleted the Epson and went to install
the (even older) Toshiba. Thats when printtool spat the dummy.
When I do a modprobe lp the modules load OK, as lsmod shows
Module Size Used by
parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean)
parport_pc 5620 1 (autoclean)
lp 4476 0 (unused)
parport 7124 1 [parport_probe parport_pc lp]
but I get these lines appear in /var/log/messages:
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
May 18 14:54:11 cwaypc1 kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Restarting the lpd daemon achieves nothing.
I have even recompiled the kernel so that the relevant parts are, but to
no avail:
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
#CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
CONFIG_PNP_BPARPORT=m
It's got me stumped. Can anyone help pse.
Howard.
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