On Sunday 25 September 2005 23:03, stanley jobson wrote: > i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use the > printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ...
Hmm, well it's possible the serial port is broken.. > > Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) > > i think so: lpd is not running and lsof | grep lpt doesnt show anything > either : ( fstat /dev/lpt0 and fstat /dev/lpt0.ctl ? > so i guess there could be a prob with the ready/status checking > procedure This consists of checking the BUSY pin on the port.. Parallel ports are (sans ECP/EPP extras) very very simple. Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? What do you see in dmesg? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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