Re: [PLUG] Printer failure

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@netaxs.com>]

I don't see the printer support module loaded.  Would it not be better
to compile the kernel with the parallel port hardware and the printer
support compiled into the kernel?

Steve Gran wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I'm fairly new to Linux - I've had a Debian box for about four months.  I'm running Debian's Woody distro on an AMD K6-2 cpu, with kernel v. 2.4.2.  The problem I'm having is a total printer failure.  I upgraded the kernel from v. 2.2.18 at about the saame time that I ran apt-get dist upgrade, and now the printer is an attractive block of plastic.
> The steps I've tried so far:
> dmesg reports that my box can find the printer on boot (it reports an HP 710, and I'm actually using an HP712c, but they're the same family, so I assume tthis is no big deal).
> lpr foo.txt seems like it works - a large enough file will pause for a moment before returning to the prompt, and an immediatew lpq will show foo.txt in the printer qeue.  It will then disappear and nothing comes out of the printer.
> cdat foo.txt > /dev/lp0 does essentially the same thing - it will pause as though it's sending the file, then return to the prompt with out anything coming from the printer.  Same for cat foo.txt > /dev/par0.
> lsmod shows that lp.o, parport.o, parport_pc.0 are loaded.
> /etc/init.d/lpd restart returns normal values - stopping printer spooler:lpd, starting printer spooler:lpd.
> tunelp /dev/lp0 -s reports: /dev/lp0 status is 216, on-line.
> tunelp /dev/lp0 -r reports: /dev/lp0 usinf IRQ -1.  This seems to be troubling, as dmesg reports the parport is using IRQ 7 - I tried to make tunelp force /dev/lp0 to use IRQ 7, without success.
> I tried regenerating my magicfilterconfig file - no changes, although I believe that the cat command should have bypassed the filter, so I don't think that's the problem.
> I can't think of what else to do.  If anyone can help, I would really appreciate.
> 
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