printer not detected

beckwith · 08-28-2003, 09:31 PM

I updated most of my hardware, and upgraded from RH8 to Mandrake 9.1. My Canon 4550 printer is daisy chained from an Iomega Zip disk. The Zip disk is accessable but the printer is not detected. On RH8 the opposite was true, but I had 2 ISA parallel ports and I'm unsure which devices were chained - I had a scanner, printer, and Zip disk - in some combination. The printer hasn't the sockets to make it come first (before the Zip).

Half_Elf · 08-28-2003, 10:08 PM

why you mean it is not detected?
have you tried to send something to all parallel port?

try this :
for x in `ls /dev/lp*`; do echo "damn it" > $x; done

beckwith · 08-29-2003, 03:27 AM

There's an option in one the configuration menus where you can define a printer - the first thing it does is search for printers, and it comes back "no printers detected".

Half_Elf · 08-29-2003, 07:28 AM

you have a very strange physical schema, I don't think that RedHat/Mandrake configuration toy will find a printer connected to another device on the parallel port. You'll probably need to do some deep configuration firt.

beckwith · 08-29-2003, 08:09 AM

OK. I had to reconnect the old system to the peripherals to get my stuff etc, and reinstall Win98 to sell it. Now "pup" finds my printer, not that I changed anything in Mandrake :-(
But - - my test page print resulted in about 30+ pages of
1) step /step down / step down. + 2) many pages of hex.

I shouldn't be posting this here (nolonger h/w).... what I now need is know is how do what "printtool" under RH did. I need to set "Send FF", "Send EOT", I've found the paper setting for "A4".

cheers