RE: Problem with the computer.

[LENGARD Pascal OCISI <pascal.lengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what does the printer do if you just cat a text file on it ?
like with this command:
cat /etc/hosts > /dev/lp0
if it prints things, your problem is with the setup of lpr/lpd and   
printtool
else it maybe the cable, your kernel not using /dev/lp0 correctly, ...

hope this helps
pascal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boddapati Phani Kiran(B.Tech)
> [mailto:ee97229@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 11:59 PM
> To: linux-india@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Problem with the computer.
>
>
> Sir,
>    I have a Digital LP25/LP26 lineprinter. I wish to connect it to my
> linux machine running RedHat 5.1. The problem is that it
> works perfectly
> when my computer is booted into MSDOS but it doesn't work on Linux. It
> gives all sorts of errors. Almost a new one each time!
> 1. If the printer is on printtool detects it sometimes and
> doesn't some
> other times. If the printer if switched off it does always.
> 2. When the printtool detects it I give  'Textonly printer' option and
> everything seems fine then. And when I restart lpd and give
> it a test page
> to print it says "lpd daemon not running". But 'ps aux' shows that lpd
> daemon running. In stop the daemon and restart it and I get
> the same error
> message.
> 3. If I don't get a "lpd not running" message then nothing
> happens. When I
> see lpq again here I get two types of error messages. One says that
> printing is going on and nothing happens to the printer. Or
> the printer
> just scrolls up the page without printing anything or printing junk.
> Otherwise it says "printer offline". When I check my printer
> switchboard
> printer online LED will be glowing indicating that it is online.
> I tried it out on Digital Unix. But it didn't work out any
> better. I got
> only one error on it that printer is offline.
>
> I don't understand all this. It works perfectly on DOS but it
> is aweful on
> Linux.Can anyone please help me out?
>
> Thanks
> Phani Kiran
>
>
>
>
>
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