On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 16:30 -0600, Norman Carver wrote:
> Any idea what is going on?? Since my friend has to
> use W98 frequently, he is not too thrilled about having
> to remember to always turn his printer off between the
> boots.
I'll put that in my own simple words:
When the printer is switched on it listens on both ports where
the next signal is coming in.
1. You're in Win, printing via USB. Printer is listening on his
USB port.
2. You close Win and reboot into Linux. In Linux you don't have
a working USB connect to the printer (YET!). So how do you think
the printer recognizes any signals on the parallel port when it
is listening on the USB port? You have to 'reboot' the printer
as well as the PC so it can listen on both ports where the next
signal comes from.
3. Close Linux and reboot into Win. Now the printer is still
listening on the parallel port. But Win is sending on the USB
port.
Solutions:
1.
Power down printer *before* you shut down Win or Linux. Reboot.
Power on printer *after* your system (Win or Linux) is up.
2.
Unplug the USB cable (printer must be powered off) and use only
parallel in Win and in Linux. Don't forget to disable your USB
port in BIOS.
Downfall of this is, You lose extra speed and/or features in Win.
3.
Get developer's kernel for Linux and try to get the USB port
working.
Any more solutions? Oh,yeah:
Buy a second pc, connect it to your first, run Linux on one and
Win on the other pc. Connect the printer to the Win-pc and print
through network. (Now, that's the professional solution! ;-) )
wobo
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