On Monday 26 September 2005 01:42, 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.. > > maybe ...
Err parallel port :) > > Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] seb $ lptcontrol -s -d /dev/lpt0.ctl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] seb $ > > > What do you see in dmesg? > > lpt0: switched to interrupt-driven standard mode > > looks that everything is ok - not ? > but open(/dev/lpt0) still complains about "device busy" ... It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the printer is very very special.. What sort of printer is it? You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY for the open. -- 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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