I have a Zip drive and an Epson computer on the parallel port.
- RH6.2
- Dell Inspiron 7500
- Zip unused for the moment (I use it under Windows)
Printing worked just fine until a few days ago. I wanted to automate a task
by streaming some stuff directly to the printer, so I needed to learn to
print from a shell script. I executed some command line instructions in the
Printing Usage Howto. This only produced errors, or created files called
/root/lp or |lp or whatever.
When I finished, printing would not work any more. I may have broken
something.
I apologise if the answer is in Documentation/parport.txt. I don't have this
file and I don't know where to find it. All the refrences to it just call it
Documentation/parport.txt
I have read just about every message in the current archives on the subject
of busy device. I have tried to follow the instructions but nothing has
improved the situation.
Here is some information:
- bios setup: parallel port Auto/EPP (I also tried EPP/IRQ7 and
ECP/378/IRQ7/DMA3) - nothing works
# insmod imm
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
# modprobe imm
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: insmod imm failed
# modprobe parport_lowlevel (returns nothing)
# modprobe -c|grep parport
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none
# lpq
lp is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st root 19 (standard input) 42973 bytes
# lpc status all
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
1 entry in spool area
lp is ready and printing
# dmesg produces an endless spew of VFS: Disk change bla bla bla
/var/log/messages
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0 on fire
(I couldn't smell any smoke)
When I try to send text directly to the port from printtool, sometimes I get
lp0: file busy.
When I print from Netscape sometimes I get the message can't restart lpd
daemon.
One more thing:
I have a desktop machine running exactly the same version of RH, and it
prints ok (like the laptop did up until 2 days ago). Are there any other
files than conf.modules that I could compare between the two machines?
Thanks!!!
Greg
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