suse 8.2 networking

[dep]

begin  Bruce Marshall's  quote:

| I just went through the motions of installing an LJIII on parallel
| port lp0. (which I don't have at the moment)  and the only think I
| saw that was non-cups was under the 'model selection' there was a
| button that said 'use non-YAST2 ppd file'.  I've never used
| that....  Did you?

no.

here is what i did, because i did it again just now after having 
deleted the printer configuration entirely:

opened yast2 and went to hardware > printer. none was autodetected, of 
course, "other" was listed. i clicked on "configure." prompted for 
connection type, i selected "parallel." the next screen offered me 
the choice of /dev/lp0 and has a test button. i click it and a few 
seconds later a sheet of paper with "Hello, world" appears from the 
printer.

next page allows me to select the printer make and model. i choose h-p 
laserjet 3D because it is a laserjet IIID. next page tells me the 
printer is named lp, is in the default configuration, and is a new 
queue, whatever that means. there is a test printing button. i click 
on it and am given the choice of "test graphical printing" or "test 
text printing." printer is on and online, having just printed "Hello, 
world" so i choose to test graphical printing. the incoming data 
light flashes for about five seconds, and the printer goes offline. 
it cannot be put back online without cycling the power.

now, we'll try it with text printing, as soon as it warms up again. 
okay. the same thing happens.

the /etc/cups/printers.conf file says this:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.18
# Written by cupsd on Tue May 13 18:04:49 2003
<DefaultPrinter lp>
Info
Location Unknown printer
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

the printers.conf file i had with my old, working installation said 
this:

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.10
# Written by cupsd on Sat Feb 22 13:22:29 2003
<DefaultPrinter LJIIID>
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
</Printer>
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