[Leaplist] The Continuing Saga of the Haunted Hardware

[Danny W. Burdick]

Wait a minute......

    More than one machine
    More than one printer
    More than one printer cable

You are holding your mouth wrong !!!!

** Gotta be cockpit error

1. Test the printers on self test
2. Find someone, anyone with a working parallel printer and try all your 
cables
    in that environment....(it's called "swaptronics")
3. Get hands-on help configuring CUPS
4. For goodness sakes borrow a working printer and present connected cable

Let us know.....

*FYI

 I have run into a couple of idiot printers that required hptoolbox in linux
 to be running and setup so as to reload the driver into the printer each
 and everytime you restart the machine from a cold start...kinda "winnnnny"
 but it works..

burdicda




Bruce A Metcalf wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> U Using CUPS?
>
> Under Linux, yes. Under DOS 3.3, no.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>> On Friday 18 January 2008 21:21, Bruce Metcalf wrote:
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> As we discussed Thursday at the meeting-after-the-meeting, I have
>>> several systems that refuse to communicate with parallel port printers.
>>>
>>> The systems are a variety of Intel and AMD; 600MHz to 1GHz; OS include
>>> Win2kPro and Kubuntu 7.10; and three different models of HP printers,
>>> 720, 820C, and 1000C. And no, I'm not using the same parallel cable.
>>>
>>> When installing printers, all goes well until the "print test page"
>>> option is chosen. The jobs go into the print queue, but never arrive at
>>> the printer.
>>>
>>> On advice from yesterday, I tried booting the systems from a DOS 
>>> floppy.
>>> I figure v.3.3 is old enough to be too stupid to fail.
>>>
>>> It failed.
>>>
>>> BIOS settings have the parallel port enabled, standard interrupt 
>>> address
>>> and IRQ, and I've tried all the different modes (normal, EPP, ECP+EPP,
>>> bidirectional, etc.)
>>>
>>> As usual, I am at my wit's end as to where to go from here.
>>>
>>> Any and all ideas will be given a trial and my thanks.
>>>
>>> Bruce Metcalf
>>>
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