From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:08:00 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] An Important Node Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1bb90af6-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > ... and that's all she wrote. Hm, you also added an entry for officejet5610 in /sys/lib/lp/devices, I presume, as I have nonesuch. But that's to be expected. What I find ultimately disappoining is that I can't get the parallel port on my server to behave in any reasonable way. The man pages seem to lie, because they state that: The specifiers 1, 2, and 3 correspond to the parallel interfaces at PC ports 0x3bc, 0x378, and 0x278 respectively. whereas it seems that lpt1 is at 0x378. I don't have the patience to try all possible combinations. I know that trying 0x3bc failed spectacularly, as opposed to 0x378, where the readable registers return resonable values, but the data port triggers an error message: % echo sadfasjdfhgakjsdfhgsakj > /dev/lpt1data echo: write error: i/o error ... no matter the print device setting: I did try each of SPP, EPP, ECP and ECP+EPP. Is this bit rot in the printer driver or mere ignorance on my part? ++L PS: I also tried USB to drive the printer with equally little success, but I find that easier to forgive. And for those who have read this far, I also found that disconnecting devices from the USB port on the Sheevaplug cause the (USB outwards) console to disconnect, which smacks of something being overlooked rather than an unsurmountable obstacle.