James Scott Jr wrote: > Mike, > > Printer cables have often been the culprit behind issues like this, so I > am going to assume you have done something to rule them out. Like take > the cable end from aix and plug it into the linux box.
Remind me to tell you my 'printer cable horror story' at the next meeting <chuckle> Yes I have tried cables. > Here are a few more ideals;\ > 1. Determine if AIX is using any print aids like CUPS or HPlp???? > If yes, match those high level config on linux. > If no, contine with next tip. I have tried using lp but I have also just used 'cat <file> >/dev/lp0'. I thought that would bypass CUPS and pretty much everything else. > 2. Find the Linux machines print controler apps, and remove the parallel > device from their configurations. There is a printer icon, cups, hplip, > samba, and maybe a console logger. example:/etc/cups/printers.conf Doesn't writing to the /dev/ bypass all that stuff though ... or am I missing something? > 3. Try your master file again by cat'ing it to the raw port. /dev/lp0 That is what I have been doing with the captured files because I thought that should be bypassing any 'processing' by CUPS or the like. > 4. The linux bootparams include an 'lp=' setting but it does not look > too promising. _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
