printing throug zip drive

[mis]

I have my external iomega zip drive connected to the parallel port and the printer connected to the port on the zip drive. The printer is a okidata 390 dot matrix. When I check it shows the status of lp0 offline. I have tested the printer through win2000 so I know it is the setup, just not sure what exactly. Will this just not work? Using Debian 3.0 running lpd.

Mis

[mdwatts]

???

All the required hardware device modules loaded? For the zip and printer support?

[mis]

I have all the modules loaded for the zip drive and can access it fine. The only module I have for printing is lp, is there other ones?

Mis

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by mis
The only module I have for printing is lp, is there other ones?


I'm sure a little bit of searching around would have found you the other modules that are required for parallel port printing. That or looking in your /lib/modules directories.

/lib/modules/2.4.21-166-smp4G/kernel/drivers/parport

parport.o
parport_pc.o

[mis]

I have those two loaded as well. Needed them for the zip drive. Here is everything I can think of to include. Sorry if it is unecessary.

#lsmod

Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
ppa 9760 1
lp 6912 1 (autoclean)
es1370 27312 0 (unused)
gameport 1308 0 [es1370]
soundcore 3236 4 [es1370]
ide-scsi 7488 0
parport_pc 25704 2
parport 21728 2 [ppa lp parport_pc]
3c509 7968 1
isa-pnp 27432 0 [3c509]
keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
usbkbd 2848 0 (unused)
input 3072 0 [keybdev usbkbd]
usb-ohci 17472 0 (unused)
usbcore 48032 0 [usbkbd usb-ohci]

The /proc/interrupts

CPU0
0: 16359425 XT-PIC timer
1: 10101 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 33318 XT-PIC serial
5: 60842 XT-PIC eth0
8: 3 XT-PIC rtc
10: 0 XT-PIC es1370
11: 0 XT-PIC usb-ohci
14: 38936 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
LOC: 0
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

The /proc/ioports also

0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-022f : 3c509 PnP
02f8-02ff : serial(set)
0378-037a : parport0
037b-037f : parport0
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(set)
0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
e000-e03f : Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
e000-e03f : es1370
f000-f00f : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE
f000-f007 : ide0
f008-f00f : ide1

[hlrguy]

I couldn't find any 390 at linux printing.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Okidata

Cool, found it
http://www.fredrick.com/technicalsupport/acaddocs/td135202.html

can be set up to emulate either
Epson LQ series,
IBM PP X24/XL24

set the dip switches, and then try configuring the printer.

hlrguy

[mis]

There are no dip switches on the printer or the zip drive.

[mis]

Nevermind I found the answer. I swear I searched before. Just in case anyone else needs to know. You have to load and unload modules for each. Thanks for the help.

http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue1/m1zip1.html

[mdwatts]

If you want to print you load the module for lp if you want to use the Zip drive you unload the lp module and load the Zip module instead.


That is good to know.