Hi,

Can you please tell me from my setting below on why my Samsung ML2010 printer (NON-USB) is not printing even though under the properties box, it says SERVICE IS UP AND RUNNING...Also, the print jobs are also in QUEUE, but why doesnt it want to print??? I used the same printer in the older versions of Solaris 10...with the same printer, and it worked...maybe I just forgot which port I selected...Please tell me from my settings below:

Printer Name: ml2
Printer Server: myname02
Printer Port: /dev/lp1 before I tried /dev/term/a (and same issue)
Printer Make: Samsung
Model: ML2010 (Not listed so I selected ML-210
Printer Driver: Foomatic/gdi Recommended
Write to Superuser: YES
Default: YES
User Access: ALl Users.

Please help. Thanks.

It says service is up and running, but not printing..So I would assume the proper drivers came bundled as far as printer drivers concerned...

SOmething is making it not print...Because all my print jobs are in QUEUE, so I dont know...

Hi,

I see that your printer is using the old fashioned parallel port.
Nothing wrong with that, except that in Solaris 10 the device /dev/lp1 softlink to /devices/isa/lp@1,378:eccp0 is broken.
There *is* no lp@1,378:eccp0 in /devices/isa
A bugreport has been filed about this some years ago.

However, in Solaris 10 an ecpp parallel port driver does exist , but it won't load on boot. You can make it load manually with "modload".
Use "modinfo" to check this. From this point on you should be able to print now.

To get the driver attached, so that it loads at boottime, you need to get this module registered in /etc/driver_aliases. Therefore you do "update_drv -a -i 'lp' ecpp".
The -i parameter takes care of calling "devfsadm" which reads the file driver_aliases and then builds the new devicetree, so that the broken link from lp in /dev to lp@1,378:eccp0 in /devices/isa got fixed.
You can check this in /device/isa.

Best regards, C

HI,

So after these steps, which printer port do I have to select?
Is it /dev/lp1 or /dev/term/a ?

ALso, do I have to download this driver or its within the Solaris directory already?

Thanks.

/dev/lp1

....in Solaris 10 an ecpp parallel port driver does exist , but it won't load on boot. You can make it load manually with "modload"....

It seems to be NOT printing StarOffice and webpages...But I did a test under the TEXT EDITOR, and seems to work fine when printing those out.

I though everything was fine, but not 100 percent...Please take a look on what I did below..


I did the following:

$ modload
/bin/ksh: modload: not found
$ su
Password:
# modload
usage: modload [-p] [-e <exec_file>] <filename>
# modload
/bin/ksh: modload: not found
$ su
Password:
# modload
usage: modload [-p] [-e <exec_file>] <filename>


Then...this and did a reboot...

# update_drv -a -i 'lp' ecpp

Ok...something is very very odd here...Now after waiting around 7 minutes after clicking on PRINT, in StarOffice, it did finally print...
But what is causing these long delays?????


Can you please explain?

I have heard & read many problems like this and other with Solaris printing. That is why I installed cups (& later also extra Gutenprint drivers). This works satisfactory.

You 'll find more info at www.cups.org

Thanks, C