Hello. Surely the problem regarding printers and parallel port zip drives has been discussed before. I also think there's a web at www.torque.net, but I can't remember well. Anyway, I'll ask you the question :-) As I told you in my last message, I use SuSE 5.3, with kernel 2.2.10. I've tried to recompile the kernel so that it supports my parallel zip drive and my printer. I've tried nearly everything (including all the options in the kernel, compiling them as modules...) but nothing works. My printer is a HP 720c. It seems I have configured my "printcap" ok with YaST, but the thing is that it doesn't print. When I try to print sth with the lpr command, and then do "lpq" to see the queue, at the top it says "Waiting for printer (offline?)". Of course my printer is on when I try to print or to see the queue. How can I configure my kernel or whatever so that it works? (if you think it's better to give me the URL I won't have any problems; I'm a bit lost with this subject so any help is very useful). Regards, _________________________________ Àlex Maneu - nexus.mansoft@ctv.es ICQ: 12433233 Phones: +34932967792, +34619541839 PGP Public Key Available at http://www.amaneu.informaticos.org http://plataforma.hypermart.net http://www.mansoft.informaticos.org TARIFA PLANA YA! _________________________________
I believe this is discussed here in the Zip mini-howto. If I remember right you load the zip driver (ppa or imm depending on what Zip drive you have) and then load the lp driver. http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote:
Hello.
Surely the problem regarding printers and parallel port zip drives has been discussed before. I also think there's a web at www.torque.net, but I can't remember well. Anyway, I'll ask you the question :-)
As I told you in my last message, I use SuSE 5.3, with kernel 2.2.10. I've tried to recompile the kernel so that it supports my parallel zip drive and my printer. I've tried nearly everything (including all the options in the kernel, compiling them as modules...) but nothing works.
My printer is a HP 720c. It seems I have configured my "printcap" ok with YaST, but the thing is that it doesn't print. When I try to print sth with the lpr command, and then do "lpq" to see the queue, at the top it says "Waiting for printer (offline?)". Of course my printer is on when I try to print or to see the queue.
How can I configure my kernel or whatever so that it works? (if you think it's better to give me the URL I won't have any problems; I'm a bit lost with this subject so any help is very useful).
Regards,
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Hello, Have you tried to change the port address to Lp0 from Lp1. I had this problem when I switched to the 2.2.x kernel. Hope this helps, Mike On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Alexandre Maneu i Victòria wrote:
Hello.
Surely the problem regarding printers and parallel port zip drives has been discussed before. I also think there's a web at www.torque.net, but I can't remember well. Anyway, I'll ask you the question :-)
As I told you in my last message, I use SuSE 5.3, with kernel 2.2.10. I've tried to recompile the kernel so that it supports my parallel zip drive and my printer. I've tried nearly everything (including all the options in the kernel, compiling them as modules...) but nothing works.
My printer is a HP 720c. It seems I have configured my "printcap" ok with YaST, but the thing is that it doesn't print. When I try to print sth with the lpr command, and then do "lpq" to see the queue, at the top it says "Waiting for printer (offline?)". Of course my printer is on when I try to print or to see the queue.
How can I configure my kernel or whatever so that it works? (if you think it's better to give me the URL I won't have any problems; I'm a bit lost with this subject so any help is very useful).
Regards,
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Hello. First of all, thank you to everybody who tried to help :-) I'm more interested now in printing than in using the zip drive, but thank you for provinding the info on zip-minihowto. That's what I've tried: I went to http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ (as Mike told me) and downloaded pbm2ppa (I think it intends to be a program to be able to print with GDI/Windows printers). After compiling, installing and configuring it following the instructions in INSTALL and INSTALL-MORE, I tried to print. Then I get the message: /usr/local/printascii: /dev/lp1: no such device (printascii is a script you have to generate to make it work). I went to /dev and made a simple "ls" to see if lp0, lp1 and lp2 existed. And they exist. Changing the script to make it work with lp0 it happens the same. And the same with lp2. If I try to make "lpr file_I_want_to_print", the first line of the output is "waiting for printer to become ready (offline?)". If I make "lsmod", the module "lp" is in the list. In the column on the right it says "0 (autoclean) (unused)". I've recompiled the kernel to support the printer in the kernel and not as a module, but it happens the same. What should I do? Thank you again _________________________________ Àlex Maneu - nexus.mansoft@ctv.es ICQ: 12433233 Phones: +34932967792, +34619541839 PGP Public Key Available at http://www.amaneu.informaticos.org http://plataforma.hypermart.net http://www.mansoft.informaticos.org TARIFA PLANA YA! _________________________________
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