I am trying to set up a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer for use under Debian 1.2. It is a Postscript-Printer, but I don't have any documentation. (Found the device in a factory's trash...) It works great with Win95, but I am not able to print anything with Linux. 'lpr' does nothing, and I cannot cat a file to /dev/lp1 (as root, of course). I do not use plip, so there can't be any clashes at the parallel port?
I fiddled around with tunelp, but it keeps saying things like: # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 # /dev/lp1 using polling # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 11 # /dev/lp1 using IRQ 11 # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line with no positive effect on printing. I compiled lp-support as a module in the kernel, kerneld starts it at boot time. # bash# dmesg | grep lp # lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) Somehow the printer seems to receive data, when I try to print, because its display says 'PROCESSING` , but then it becomes `READY` again. Anyhow: No output in tray. Can someone help me? Are there any tools to debug my problem further than with tunelp? Like a kind of 'ping' for lp-devices? Thank you in advance Frank Barknecht ############################### mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ###############################
