Re: Printing suppressed

Mario Miyojim wrote:
> 
> Suddenly, my Seawolf platform cannot send a signal
> to the parallel port (/dev/lp0). My printer used
> to work fine locally from my Linux machine.
> Now it only prints from a Windows 98 machine.
> 
> I tried through the 'printtool', and directly with
> lpr and cat. Everything appears to be correctly
> done by the OS, but the printer does not print
> anything, not even garbage. lpq informs that the
> spool is empty, printtool in test mode informs that
> the print daemon was restarted and that a file has
> been sent to the printer, but nothing is actually
> printed. It is very frustrating.

Did you make sure that you set it to the correct driver?  Did you check 
the Parallel port setting in the BIOS?  Did you update any rpms recently 
(especially LPRng)?

Forrest
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