I posted this to the newbie list first, no replies - so here goes:
This is really odd - my HP DeskJet 694C has always worked. Well, its usually
not auto-detected during installation but I've always managed to set it up
between CUPS and XPP.
Anyways, now whenever I boot up, just at the end of the boot up messages, the
green light on the printer flashes once, then the orange light starts
blinking continuously. The printer is basically unresponsive at this point. I
can turn it off and on (waiting for up to 1 minute between) and it still goes
right back to the blinking orange light. I can do a shutdown -r now, and once
the computer gets to the password (in BIOS), I can turn the printer back off
then on, and its fine again. Until I continue booting up, then once again,
near the end of Mandrake's bootup messages (this is before I login as any
user), it does it again.
For those not familiar with the 694C, the orange light is a "catch all" light
that will blink for various different reasons. I pulled my printer manual out
and looked thru the troubleshooting section but nothing stood out.
Just in case, yes there is paper in the printer <grin>
You can't print anything at all - times out...
The only things I've been fooling with lately are postfix/fetchmail/procmail
and I don't see how that has anything to do with this. Just in case though, I
turned these services off, and rebooted - made no difference.
I'm using Mandrake v8.2 at this time.
Anyone have any ideas?
PS I know it might just be going bad but....it doesn't seem right that it
only blinks once Mandrake boots. If I don't get any sem-useful hints here,
I'll take it into my sons' room and hook it up to his comp (which dual boots
Windoze...
Thanks much!
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