Re: Can"t Print (fwd)

>heisspf@skyinet.net said:
> > On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection
> > and RH 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
>
> > I have not an onboard parport but a singel parallel PCI card with chipset
> > NM9805CV.

ray@comarre.com said:
> but I **think** you also need the module parport_pc to use a parallel
> printer.

I have done that: insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7

then I get in dmesg 2 warnings and the message parport 0x378: "you gave this
address, but there is probably no parallel port there!"

After insmod parport_pc there is no more error message about 'cannot open
'/dev/lp0' 'No such device or address'

Doing lpr file gives some rumbling on the hd and lpq shows job done yet
nothing has been printed.

io=0x378 and irq=7 I got from the instructions on how to install the printer
card.

In bios onboard paraport is disabled.

"more /proc/pci" should give me the io and irq addresses of the card, it does
not. Could that mean that the card has not been detected at all by the system?

Kudzu does not indicate that it had found new hardware after the card was
installed.

Regards
--
Peter

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Re: Can"t Print (fwd)

At 02:59 PM 5/2/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:
> >heisspf@skyinet.net said:
> > > On a standalone PC with no modem and therefore no Internet connection
> > > and RH 9.0 installed I am unable to get the printer to work.
> >
> > > I have not an onboard parport but a singel parallel PCI card with chipset
> > > NM9805CV.
>
>ray@comarre.com said:
> > but I **think** you also need the module parport_pc to use a parallel
> > printer.
>
>I have done that: insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
>
>then I get in dmesg 2 warnings and the message parport 0x378: "you gave this
>address, but there is probably no parallel port there!"
>
>After insmod parport_pc there is no more error message about 'cannot open
>'/dev/lp0' 'No such device or address'
>
>Doing lpr file gives some rumbling on the hd and lpq shows job done yet
>nothing has been printed.
>
>io=0x378 and irq=7 I got from the instructions on how to install the printer
>card.
>
>In bios onboard paraport is disabled.
>
>"more /proc/pci" should give me the io and irq addresses of the card, it does
>not. Could that mean that the card has not been detected at all by the system?
>
>Kudzu does not indicate that it had found new hardware after the card was
>installed.


This troubleshooting report is a bit of a hodgepodge of information, so a
hodgepodge of suggestions is probably a proper response to it.

1. In the BIOS, do you have "PnP OS" set to NO? Or (if it is YES) do you
have RH set up to do PnP for you? (I can't advise you as to how, since my
practice is to let the BIOS handle PnP.) If I were to guess at this point,
it would be that you have this setting wrong.

2. Does the BIOS report seeing the PCI card? BIOS information formats vary
a lot, but usually there is a screen briefly displayed just before boot
starts that shows IRQ info. With Linux, it will show up just before (and at
first , right above) the LILO: prompt.

3. Look at your BIOS screens to see what IRQs it is set to assign to the
various PCI slots. IRQ 7 is unlikely to be there by default (since it would
normally be used by the mobo parport, the one you've disabled). Also check
to see if you'ce reserved any IRQs for "legacy" use (which in this context
means an ISA slot, if your mobo has one). With the details depending on
your mobo and BIOS, there should *some* way to select IRQ 7 for the slot
you have yoyur PCI card in.

4. If lpq shows the jobs as done, then lpd has managed to print them
somewhere (from its perspective, anyway). So if you check
/proc/interrupts, you should find some IRQ associated with the lp0 device,
and in /proc/ioports some I/O base.

5. I prefer "/sbin/lspci" to "more /proc/pci", but that's just style, not
substance. In either case, not finding an entry there does suggest the
system is not detecting the card. This is almost surely a BIOS issue (or
failure of the card itself), not a Linux issue.

6. If you just "insmod parport_pc", without forcing an IRQ and I/O base,
what happens?

7. You said in an earlier message that all of this worked with Slackware.
Were you referring to a Slackware install on this hardware, or to using
this parport card in a different host that ran Slackware? (It's relevant to
all this speculation I'm doing about BIOS problems.)



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Re: Can"t Print (fwd)

Hi,

I have made a new installation of RH9.0 2.4.20-9 where I have a parallel
printer card. The system is now discovering the card.

Doing: "more /proc/pci" I am told that the printer card is using irq 5 and the
io=0xd400.
This is the first number to show. There are some more io.

Only to this io does the printer react, meaning it makes that sound when the
print head moves somewhat and only giving this io will lpq give an information
about the print queue. It is a dot matrix printer.

That printer react comes when I do: insmod parport_pc io=0x400 irq=5.
After this lpq gives the usual information about the print queue. There is
always an old queue around either as 'done' or now as an 'error too many
tries'.

Now if I want to print something 'lpr file' the keyboard totally freezes and I
have to do a dirty reboot.

Any help appreciated.
--
Peter

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Re: Can"t Print (fwd)

On Sunday 09 May 2004 09:16, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have made a new installation of RH9.0 2.4.20-9 where I have a parallel
> printer card. The system is now discovering the card.
>
> Doing: "more /proc/pci" I am told that the printer card is using irq 5 and
> the io=0xd400.
> This is the first number to show. There are some more io.
>
> Only to this io does the printer react, meaning it makes that sound when
> the print head moves somewhat and only giving this io will lpq give an
> information about the print queue. It is a dot matrix printer.
>
> That printer react comes when I do: insmod parport_pc io=0x400 irq=5.
> After this lpq gives the usual information about the print queue. There is
> always an old queue around either as 'done' or now as an 'error too many
> tries'.
>
> Now if I want to print something 'lpr file' the keyboard totally freezes
> and I have to do a dirty reboot.

Name model and make of the card, chipset nr, if possable,
what does the system log have to say about the printer and if anything what
does it say about the command used to print.


> Any help appreciated.

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is built on organized crime.

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