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Re: Extended Systems printer brick woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Sat Aug 3 12:19:52 1996
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 09:14:21 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: jeff@kcrg.com
Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960802011435.753A-100000@mail.kcrg.com> (message
from Jeff Fisher on Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:24:19 -0500 (CDT))
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:24:19 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jeff Fisher <jeff@kcrg.com>
I'm having a problem with printing to an ESI brick, and was wondering
if anyone out there could shed some light on the subject.
In past kernels (1.2.x and 1.3.<58?) I was able to print fine to this
brick. The brick in question is an Extended systems MPX model #
ESI-2810. It has a Laser-jet 4 hanging off the first parallel port, and
is using the TP port for it's network connection.
Now, when I try to print a file to this printer (currently kernel
2.0.10), it hangs after about the first 2.5 pages, and never completes
the job. Looking at netstat reveals that the connection is in the
ESTABLISHED state with about 20k-30k in the SendQ and -1 in the
RecieveQ.
I don't know enough about it (or have enough time) to study the output
of tcpdump to see what's going on. Does anybody know what I could try,
or what I should look for in a tcpdump output?
Does Emulex produce this device by any chance? I just ran into a bug in the
TCP/IP implementation in the Emulex NetJet with precisely these symptoms. It
has been reported and acknowledged by Emulex, but they can't give any timeframe
for a fix nor even commit to the fix being in the next firmware release. I am
not particularly amused by their response.
Leonard
