Did you mean to say, "serial port printer" or "parallel port printer"?
I ask because 'parport', 'lp' and 'ppdev' are used for parallel port
usage...
How do you want to tell if it is on or off? Are you writing a program, are
you wanting to see a message at boot up or do want to hear the printer make
noises?
What serial port printer is this?
----- Original Message -----
From: "hector Colina" <hector_r_colina@hotmail.com>
To: <linux-parport@torque.net>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:21 PM
> Help
>
> I have connected the serial port printer to my Linux Server, and also I
can
> printing on this printer, but I want to know how can I check the printer
> turn on or off, or did the printer connect to the com port or not ?
>
> Anybody can tell me if the parport modules can give this signal or not ?
>
> I get in dmesg:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> parport0: Printer, SAMSUNG SRP-270
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
>
> But If the printer is off, i have the same information.
>
>
> Thank you for your help !
>
>
>
>
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>
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