Re: parport problem 2

[Michael Perkonigg <michael.perkonigg@liland.at>]

David Pye wrote:

>On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:39, Michael Perkonigg wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>well, I installed the 2.6.15-rc5-pa4 kernel but now I encountered a new
>>problem: cups seems to get jobs and the printers led is blinking but
>>there is no output on the printer.
>>The printer (HP LJ2100) works fine on another computer with the same
>>cable (approx. 10m long).
>>It seems that the data isn't sent completely to the printer. Is there a
>>possibility that this problem occurs because of a kernel module problem?
>>
>>Again, it's a 712/60 with 96MB.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Mike
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>Sounds like a driver problem perhaps, seems far more likely than a kernel 
>module bug to me.
>
>If you simply cat a text file directly to the device, does that print 
>correctly?
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Unfortunately not. I tried with ls -l > /dev/lp0 and it yielded the same
result.

Thanks,
Mike