RE: [Hpoj-devel] newbie question

[Erick C. <ec...@ar...>]

ok, I looked up your response on the website since the mailing list is
REALLY slow and I have yet to receive it.

here's some stuff you requested:

> cat /proc/parport/0/autoprobe

MODEL:Unknown device;
MANUFACTURER:Unknown vendor;

... which seems obviously wrong but I don't know what valid values
might be...

> see what other port numbers (1, 2, etc.) are in the parport
directory

there is only 0

> Is your peripheral by any chance connected to a switchbox
> or other "pass-through" device, such as a Zip drive?

no, it's connected directly to the printer

> Is the parallel port enabled in your BIOS/CMOS setup?

I will have to check next time I can access the box but I'm pretty
sure (it's enabled by default and I haven't c changed it).

> Ideally it should be set to "ECP" or "bidirectional", although the
drivers
> currently don`t use the enhanced functionality.

I will set it that way when next I have a chance.

> Are you able to print just by dumping text or PCL
> data to /dev/lp0 (or lp1, etc.), without loading ieee12844pp.o?

yes.  I did "cat .kshrc > /dev/lp0" and it printed it.  funky, but it
printed.

> If your computer dual-boots with DOS
> or Windows, can you print there?

not a dual-boot.  linux only.

> cat /proc/ioports

0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : soundblaster
02e8-02ef : serial(auto)
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
e800-e8ff : eth0
ec00-ecff : eth1
ffa0-ffa7 : ide0
ffa8-ffaf : ide1

> cat /proc/interrupts

           CPU0
  0:   95883318          XT-PIC  timer
  1:       2468          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  3:       9432          XT-PIC  serial
  5:    3914313          XT-PIC  soundblaster
  8:          1          XT-PIC  rtc
  9:    3699914          XT-PIC  eth0
 11:     349853          XT-PIC  eth1
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:   10210692          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:        610          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0

hope this stuff helps... would be great to get this to work.

- e

-----Original Message-----
From: PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) [mailto:dav...@hp...]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 4:10 PM
To: 'Erick Calder'
Cc: 'pa...@rc...'
Subject: RE: [Hpoj-devel] newbie question


Sorry I didn't get to it yesterday.  I send a reply at 2:24 PM
(Pacific
time) today, but the mailing list seems to be rather slow.  I just got
it a
few minutes ago (4:06 PM).

David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erick Calder [mailto:ec...@ar...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 3:58 PM
> To: PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1)
> Subject: RE: [Hpoj-devel] newbie question
>
>
> David,
>
> I replied to you yesterday at the list address but didn't hear back
> from you.  was that the right thing to do or should I write you
> directly as I'm doing now?
>
> thx - e
>
> Just in case you didn't receive it, I'm including that message
below:
>
> -------------------------------------
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:42:44 -0700
> From: Erick Calder <ec...@ar...>
> To: hpo...@li...
> Subject: [Hpoj-devel] RE: Hpoj-devel digest, Vol 1 #2 - 3 msgs
>
> David,
>
> > (That's annoying -- sourceforge's mailing lists don't add a
> > Reply-To line to the header.  Anyway...)
>
> I hit reply to the digest I* received today so I hope that's the
right
> thing to do.  yesterday I replied directly to you since you wrote me
> directly.
>
> > I see from the lsmod output you sent that you have properly
> > loaded parport, parport_pc, and parport_probe.  What Linux
> distribution
> > and version are you running?
>
> # uname -a
> Linux beowulf 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 20:53:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
>
> > What peripheral are you using?
>
> an OfficeJet 700 (which is supported)
>
> > Next, make sure it's connected and powered on before you insmod
> > ieee12844pp.o.  (Again, I will clarify this in the documentation
> next
> > time.)  Let me know if you're still having trouble, and we'll take
> it
> > from there.
>
> ok. I connected the printer and tried again with the same failure.
>
> 	root@beowulf:/root/hpoj-0.5/ieee12844 # insmod ieee12844pp.o
> 	ieee12844pp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> I tried turning the printer off and back on and tried it again but
> still same message.  what next?
>
> thx - e
>
>