Some weird printer problems

[David Aikema]

On June 14, 2002 09:22 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> Clarify something, did this ever work?  

Yup.  It was working just fine until a couple of days ago.

> What appears in messages if you
> load the lp module manually?

modprobe lp loaded the module without generating any sort of error message.  
Here's the relevant output in /var/log/messages

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Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: FIFO is 16 bytes
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: writeIntrThreshold is 16
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: readIntrThreshold is 16
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: PWord is 8 bits
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: Interrupts are ISA-Pulses
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP port cfgA=0x10 cfgB=0x40
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: 0x3bc: ECP settings irq=<none or set by other 
mean
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc (0x7bc) 
[PCSPP,TRISTAT
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: irq 7 detected
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 22:35:59 david kernel: parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(30)
Jun 14 22:36:00 david kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling).
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David Aikema