Ok, it was the zipdrive causing the non-printing .. but now another small problem has started ... I am getting the stair stepping now...
This prints but stairsteps: lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :rp=text:\ :sh: This is the apsfilter setup ... but doesn't print anything at all .. just keeps the files in the que: lp|lp2|bj200-letter-auto-mono|bj200 auto mono:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/bj200-letter-auto-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-bj200-letter-ascii-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: :rp=text:\ Any ideas what I have going wrong here? I have tried eveything I know from when I had this problem 15 months ago ... :\ Chad On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Michael Tempsch wrote: > > >> > >>Could it be because I am going from the printer port to the zip drive to > >>the printer? > > Most likely yes... > > If you didn't compile ppa and lp as modules when you compiled your kernel > it won't work. So, recompile kernel with ppa and lp as modules; > when you want to print do: 'rmmod ppa ; insmod lp' and when you want to > access the ZIPdrive 'rmmod lp ; insmod ppa' > Kludgy, yes... there's a (experimental?) patch so that the printer and ZIP > may coexist without you having to do rmmod/insmod all the time: > http://www.cyberelk.demon.co.uk/parport.html > I haven't tried this one myself... > > /Michael > -- > | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | > | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, POG#130 | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Ed1temp | > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southwest Technology Development Institute New Mexico State University --- HP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ DBP: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Debian/ LCAO: http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/Las_Cruces_Art/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .