On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 10:52:22AM -0400, Max Blanco wrote:

I now have the modem working fine on my lnux powrmac. The next problem is the printer port. Mac doesn't have a parallel prt, apparently; they use the serial port instead. I have identified it as /dev/ttyS1, courtesy of "dmesg | grep tty", and "setserial /dev/ttyS1", which match irq and hex address.

I have an ostensibly working Imagewriter II. (It goes through the powrup tests and behaves as expected.)

Yet when I do # cat > /dev/ttyS1 The quick brown fox. <ctrl-d>

nothing comes out the printhead. Yes, I do have it "online". No, I haven't ever had it work with the macos: I am unable (terminally) to work with iconic macos.

Any suggestions?

Does Imagewriter II have a powerup self-test in eeprom (like various HP devices I've known?) If so, how do I gain access?

PS If anyone has a working /etc/printcap for a serial port mac printer, I'd appreciate you posting it.

Well you could install the cupsys printer system (much much better than lpr/lpd) and the approrpaite cupsomatic/foomatic packages to get http://localhost:631 working and see if using the web interface it works then. It has a pretty good list of printers and ports to choose from. Assuming the cable is right, that should do something. Well hopefully. Lennart Sorensen -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml