[22278] in Hotline Meeting
Private workstation printer setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Louie)
Tue Apr 19 21:50:19 1994
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, op@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 94 21:50:04 EDT
From: Tom Louie <tlouie@MIT.EDU>
I've been trying to configure our private ws to work with a newly bought
printer. The ws is a DEC 5000/25 (dominick.mit.edu) and the printer is
a HP LJ 4P (neal). Everytime I try to send something to the printer, it
doesn't print anything. lpq says that the job is there and that the
printer is ready and printing. However, a check of the
/usr/spool/printer/neal directory shows that:
/usr/athena/lib/ps/psif: dominick.MIT.EDU:tlouie neal start - Tue Apr 19 21:39:56 1994
/usr/athena/lib/ps/psif: unexpected EOF from printer (sync)!
/usr/athena/lib/ps/psif: end - Tue Apr 19 21:40:06 1994
found in the file: TfA007DOMINICK.MIT.EDU.
The printer is connected to the serial port of the dec workstation. The
serial port settings on the printer are xon/xoff pacing, 9600 baud,
robust xon, and hi dtr polarity. It seems that changing these settings
have no effect on the error message found in the log file.
Here are the contents of my /etc/printcap file:
neal|m5-221B HPLJ 4P:\
:lp=/dev/null:rp=neal:rm=DOMINICK.MIT.EDU:\
:sd=/usr/spool/printer/neal:\
:lf=/usr/spool/printer/neal/neal-log:\
:af=/usr/spool/printer/neal/neal-acct:\
:rw:mx#0:sf:\
:if=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psif:\
:of=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psof:\
:gf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psgf:\
:nf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psnf:\
:tf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/pstf:\
:rf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psrf:\
:vf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psvf:\
:cf=/usr/athena/lib/ps/pscf:\
:df=/usr/athena/lib/ps/psdf:
Here are the contents of my /etc/ttys file:
# @(#)ttys 4.1 (ULTRIX) 7/2/90
#
#
#
# name getty type status comments
#
#console "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure # console terminalconsole "/etc/athena/dm /etc/athena/login/config ttyqf" ansi on secure
tty00 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty01 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty02 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 on nomodem # direct connect tty
tty03 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty04 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty05 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty06 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty07 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
ttyd0 "/etc/getty std.9600" vt100 off shared secure # modem line
ttyp0 none network secure
ttyp1 none network secure
ttyp2 none network secure
ttyp3 none network secure
ttyp4 none network secure
ttyp5 none network secure
ttyp6 none network secure
ttyp7 none network secure
ttyp8 none network secure
ttyp9 none network secure
ttypa none network secure
ttypb none network secure
ttypc none network secure
ttypd none network secure
ttype none network secure
ttypf none network secure
ttyq0 none network secure
ttyq1 none network secure
ttyq2 none network secure
ttyq3 none network secure
ttyq4 none network secure
ttyq5 none network secure
ttyq6 none network secure
ttyq7 none network secure
ttyq8 none network secure
ttyq9 none network secure
ttyqa none network secure
ttyqb none network secure
ttyqc none network secure
ttyqd none network secure
ttyqe none network secure
Thanks for any help...
Tom
