Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2
Subject: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2
Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 02:44:45PM +0200
In reply to:Frank Barknecht
Have you changed /etc/printcap entries to reflect the change from
lp1, as used in the 2.0.34 Kernel, to the lp0 used in the 2.2.x
kernels?
Quoting Frank Barknecht(barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de):
>
> Hi all,
>
> I upgraded from kernel 2.0.34 to kernel 2.2.4 which came on my
> Debian-CDs. Now printing has stopped. I compiled lp and parport
> as modules, changed the printcap to point to /dev/lp0 instead of
> lp1. The printer (Nec Silentwriter2 S60P - Postscript) seems to
> get some data because it displays a "PROCESSING" message when I
> try to print something with lpr or by cat'ting a postscript file
> to /dev/lp0. But there is no output.
>
> All this parport stuff is very new to me. I don't have any /dev/parport
> devices just this:
> $ ls -l /dev/par*
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par0
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par1
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par2
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 3 Dec 9 1996 /dev/par3
>
> Should I make parport devices, how do I do this?
>
> I did not change the formerly working lpd setup in other places except
> the lp-device number:
>
> # printcap
> lp|nec|nec|Nec Silentwri:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/nec:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/usr/sbin/psonly300-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>
> /etc/conf.modules has this
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278
>
> If I manually insert the lp module with:
> $ modprobe lp
> a line like this appears in syslog:
>
> Apr 30 14:34:03 fliwatut kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
> Does anybody know what might be going on here? The machine acts (in fact:
> it doesn't) as a print server for my SOHO office. Now I have to boot Win95
> to print, which is a pain in the a**
>
> Thanks for any help in advance,
> yours
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