My original question was:
> We just purchased a HP 4m+ printer and I'm trying to hook it up to an SS2
> running 4.1.2 (w/ numerous patches) with very little luck. I have gone through
> the usual stuff of checking ttytab, printenv, printcap etc. and can't figure
> out what is wrong. The printer won't print anything at all. lpd is running,
> no error messages in /var/adm/messages ... Any ideas?
[ ... printcap etc. info deleted ... ]
> Cable is:
>
> 25 pin to 25 pin ---- 25 pin o 9 pin adaptor -- HP 4m+
The problem was that I was trying to use a standard DB-25/DB-9 serial adapter
rather than a special adapter from HP. I got the correct pin layout for the
adapter from <matthew.hofener@camp.org>:
Sun (DB25M) HP (DB9M)
=========== =========
2 ------------ 3
3 ------------ 2
5 -+
|
6 -+---------- 6
7 ------------ 5
8 ------------ 1
and the printer prints.
Thanks to:
matthew.hofener@camp.org
erha@ensae.ericsson.se (Eric Havinga)
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