This is a followup to yesterday's attempt to get a CoStar Labelwriter XL working under linux.
I plugged the thing into a windows laptop and it printed fine, so the problem is not in the printer. If I start statserial, point it at /dev/ttyS1, and plug/unplug the printer from the computer, the CTS/DSR statuses change appropriately. If I do anything with the pbm2lwxl package to try to print, no errors occur but nothing comes out of the printer. The easy example is: small2lwxl < small > /dev/ttyS1 which seems to think it's worked, since there's no error output, but absolutely nothing happens on the printer. I'm beginning to wonder if some other process has locked up the serial port (although fuser -v /dev/ttyS1 shows nothing) or if I'm missing some module or kernel option. I know this is speculative, but if anyone's got an idea I'd be very grateful. This is woody running custom-built kernel 2.4.18. ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
