topic Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state in Operating System - HP-UX

Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

Phil Park — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:52:23 GMT

We have recently installed HPUX 11.11 on our HP9000 A class server and we cannot get our printer working on the in-built parallel port. This was working fine under 10.20. The printer is being added via the SAM interface. does anyone know if there is anything we are doing wrong this time?

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

harry d brown jr — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:20:13 GMT

Phil,

Are you sure you have an A-class server? Because an A-class server, whether it be an 180, 400, or 500 does not have a built in Parallel Printer Port of any type.

Is this parallel printer port in a PCI slot? If so, do you have a part number for the card?

live free or die
harry

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

Phil Park — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:26:21 GMT

You are right .. I should have said our R class server ....The exact error we are seeing is "disabled by scheduler: can't open /dev/c2t0d0_lp"

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

harry d brown jr — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:53:22 GMT

Phil,

The March 2002 patch bundle has some patches for Parallel IO, but it seems to be related to SuperIO and not the "old" parallel port stuff, so I'm not sure that patching is the answer, but if you do, and it doesn't work, then we can proceed from there.

Do you have the parallel drivers loaded into the kernel? I, unfortunately don't have access to our R's to check what that driver would be.

Have you looked into JetAdmin?

live free or die
harry

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

Steve Steel — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:20:20 GMT

Hi

Try loading

Patch Name: PHKL_23999

Patch Description: s700_800 11.11 Attempt to open valid device returns ENXIO

This should help.

Steve Steel

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

Sandip Ghosh — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 15:26:13 GMT

Can you just do an ioscan and see whether the parallel port is showing as claimed or unclaimed?

Just a quick thought.

Sandip

Re: Local parallel printer goes to diabled state

Phil Park — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:05:53 GMT

The Kernel patch has resolved the problem. Thanks very much for all of your suggestions.