ehrlich@colossus.cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) (11/08/90)
Hello again. First I would like to thank all of you who sent me the pin out for the ALM-II's printer port. I am still having some trouble and was hoping someone could help again. When the queue is started lpd claims it is waiting for the printer to become ready: psuvax1# lpq -Ppj waiting for pj to become ready (offline ?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st ehrlich 28 /.cshrc 1446 bytes Here is the printcap entry for the PaintJet: pj|Hewlett-Packard PaintJet Printer:\ :lp=/dev/mcpp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/printers/pj:\ :af=/var/adm/printers/pjacct:\ :lf=/var/spool/printers/pj/pj-errs:\ :ms=-opost:\ :if=/usr/local/zhome/lpfilters/lpif.pj:\ :of=/usr/local/zhome/lpfilters/lpof.pj:\ :sf:\ :sh:\ :rg=paintjet: The machine in question is a Sun 4/380 (i.e. a 4/280 with a 4/300 cpu board and memory) running SunOS 4.0.3. From looking at the man page for the alm-ii it says: DESCRIPTION (PRINTER PORT) The printer port is Centronics-compatible and is suitable for most common parallel printers. Devices attached to this interface are normally handled by the line printer spooling system, and should not be accessed directly by the user. Minor device numbers in the range 64 - 67 access the printer port, and the recommended naming is /dev/mcpp[0-3]. If I look at the device the major and minor number are wrong (assuming that the man page is correct, :-): psuvax1# ls -l /dev/mcpp0 crw-rw-rw- 2 root wheel 66, 0 Jul 21 1989 /dev/mcpp0 Believing the man page to be correct, I recreated the device as follows: psuvax1# ls -l /dev/mcpp0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 44, 64 Nov 7 16:04 /dev/mcpp0 Lpd still waits for the printer to become ready. We have tried connecting a known to be working Epson (stolen cable and all off of a PC) and get the same results. Does anyone have any idea as to why this will not work? Is it because I am still running 4.0.3? Does the printer need to be present and powered on at the time the Sun is booted? Thanks in advance. -- Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>/Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176