On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Max Blanco wrote:

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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.

It may need a page flush to start moving.

whazzat? ctrl-L?

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

Most (all) intelligent printers have one (winprinters aren't intelligent). Try to hold the button(s) down while cycling the power. Hold them for at least 5 seconds. Try different combinations or look on the internet for more data.

These pages helped: <LI><a href="http://www.faqs.org/faqs/apple2/faq/part18/">Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Printers, Part 18/25</a> <LI><a href="http://www.aviators.stark.k12.oh.us/Tech/imagewriter.html">Imagewriter.html</a> I got it to do a self-test by holding pwr and ff buttons while starting up. That part works, so I have a functional peripheral.

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

I am sure that you will find one on the net. The 68k Linux users must have managed this a long time ago.

Odd, google couldn't find any with my search strings. Printing-Howto's galore, but no valuable info therein.

FYI the most often encountered nonworking peripheral problem is a bad cable. If you see that things do not behave as they should try another cable first, then everything else.

The faqs.org 18/25 printer page (ref above) said the same thing. I did a continuity test and my cable is indeed working. Mine is NOT a "straight-through" cable. The correct type of cable for my imagewriter II is NOT straight-through according to faqs.org. I suspect it to be a setserial problem. The faqs.org says 9600 baud is the going rate, yet when I tried to setserial, my keyboard fubarred and I had to reboot. TIA, max. -- 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