Serial printer problem.

2007-12-25 9:07:00

Hi,

I've solved (I think) my serial printer problem. I removed Solaris 2.4,

and installed Solaris 2.3. Seems ok, so far...

Thanks to:

sweh@mpn.com (Stephen Harris)

Flow control? Is it waiting for CTS?

On the Sun side try jumpering 4&5 together and 6&8&20 together.

ENSURE serial port is set to xon/xoff flow control!

Daniel Jones <danny@ccl.umist.ac.uk>

You could try printing to /dev/cua/a instead of /dev/term/a or b.

Also I removed all login services...

Regards,

Bj�rn Karlsen

Original question:

I have a printer problem.

Hardware in use: SparcStation 1 and a serial dot matrix printer (a FACIT

emulating an IBM ProPrinter)

Software: Solaris 2.4 (patches: 101959-03, 101933-01, 101969-04, 101975-01,

101979-03, 102001-03, 102002-01, 102003-0, 102007-01, 102020-02, 102035-01,

102044-01, 102062-03, 102216-02, 101945-27, 101242-10)

The printer is connected to serial port b (/dev/term/b according to

Admintool/Printer Manager).

I have disabled the Serial Port Manager for port b (using admintool/

Serial Port Manager)

# pmadm -l -p zsmon

PMTAG PMTYPE SVCTAG FLGS ID <PMSPECIFIC>

zsmon ttymon ttya u root /dev/term/a I - /usr/bin/login - 9600 ldterm,ttcompat ttya login: - tvi925 y #

zsmon ttymon b ux root /dev/term/b I - /usr/bin/login - 9600 ldterm,ttcompat login: - tvi925 y #Initialize Only - No Connection

I have printed to this printer earlier with success, but after a reboot

of the SparcStation 1 yesterday, it will not print.

The printer queue is enabled, and lpsched is running.

lpstat -p la4_0 alternates between these outputs:

printer la4_0 waiting for auto-retry. available.

Timed-out trying to open the printer port.

and

printer la4_0 now printing la4_0-107. enabled since Wed Dec 20 13:45:12 MET 1995. available.

I've switched the power off and on on the printer, but it didn't help.

What's wrong? Bad cable (2 and 3 crossed, 7 straight through)?

Any suggestions?

lpstat -t (removed output regarding other printers):

scheduler is running

system default destination: ps1700h2

device for la4_0: /dev/term/b

la4_0 accepting requests since Fri Dec 1 09:59:59 MET 1995

printer la4_0 now printing la4_0-107. enabled since Wed Dec 20 13:45:12 MET 1995. available.

la4_0-107 edh!abc 2111060 Dec 20 08:35 on la4_0

la4_0-109 edh!abc 749 Dec 20 08:37

la4_0-119 edh!abc 749 Dec 20 08:51

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