pbickers@tamaluit (Paul Bickerstaff) (04/25/91)
I'd very much appreciate hearing from anybody who has successfully connected a serial printer to one of the digiboard ports on a Magnum 3000. I've tried both lpr and lpsched but can't get anything to work. The documentation is not very helpful; the bsd documentation particularly so. I'm assuming that the (16-port) Digiboard P1 translates to ttyd0. Do I need to alter the inittab entry for a printer? I'm running 4.51 and am specifically trying to connect an HP Rugged Writer (which can run under both HP and Epson modes). Neither hp nor dumb make any difference when supplied with lpadmin. The files get accepted for printing but nothing happens. Similar behaviour under bsd -- the files just sit in the queue. (lpc thinks the printer is off-line which of course it is not. Also I don't understand how to associate a particular tty line with a printer under bsd. The previous remarks refer to an lp=/dev/lp entry in printcap. If I use lp=/dev/ttyd0 the lpd daemon is not recognised as existing. Nor do I understand when the system prefers terminfo to printcap. It does make a difference to change the printcap as above.) What might I be overlooking in both bsd and sysV? (I do know about the link for printer in init.d) (And to save another posting next week I'm looking to do a similar thing with a LJIII in postscript mode so if anybody has succeeded with that one I'm eager to hear the details!) Any pointers gratefully accepted. Thank-you Paul Bickerstaff Internet: pbickers@tamaluit.phys.uidaho.edu Physics Dept., Univ. of Idaho Phone: (208) 885 6809 Moscow ID 83843, USA FAX: (208) 885 6173
janm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen) (04/27/91)
In article <1991Apr24.224647.10196@groucho> pbickers@tamaluit (Paul Bickerstaff) writes: >I'd very much appreciate hearing from anybody who has successfully >connected a serial printer to one of the digiboard ports on a Magnum >3000. I've tried both lpr and lpsched but can't get anything to work. >The documentation is not very helpful; the bsd documentation >particularly so. We have it working on our Magnums. For lpsched the interface script needs to be modified to do a stty to get the line right. >I'm assuming that the (16-port) Digiboard P1 translates to ttyd0. Do I >need to alter the inittab entry for a printer? Just make sure that there is no getty running on the printer port. Of course your problem could be different from the one we have; nothing can be done in various ways. If you want the interface script from our system, I can email it to you. -- Jan Mikkelsen janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au "She really is."