My summary is so late because I was not able to resolve the problem. I took
Celeste Stokely's guidance and used a null MODEM cable. I could not get the
printer to work from either serial port (through admintool). I went so far
as to take the SBUS card out of the SPARC 5 and install it in the SPARC 20
and use the original 10 meter cable with the 21 pin (small like SCSI pins)
connector. I'm guessing that didn't work because I didn't have the right
drivers on the SPARC 20 for the SBUS card to talk to the printer. In
reading through FAQ's and SUN Managers summaries, I read that SUN will not
be supporting the SUN SPARC printers with 2.6.
Below are the 2 responses I received and my original question:
>From Celeste Stokely (celeste@stokely.com) http://www.stokely.com - Home of
Unix Serial Port & Sysadm Resources:
If you hook up either a printer or a terminal to a Sun cpu serial port, you
need to use a null modem cable.
>From Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd@fls.portland.or.us - Fuji Landscape Service:
I can't find the email but some of the old SPARCs had a hardware error in
the printer port. I know the SPARCclassic had it and I forgot what which big
SPARC (20 or 10) had the same problem. I think you can find this in the
archives. If this is the case, you have to have a new motherboard cross
shipped to you.
My original question:
Hey everybody,
I configured a SPARC 20 (SOLARIS 2.5.1) to be a print server for a SUN
printer via ADMINTOOL. I got the following message in
/var/spool/lp/logs/lpsched:
02/09 11:47:17: printer fault. type: write root, status: 14
msg: (Timed-out trying to open the printer port.)
lpstat -o shows me valid print jobs in the que.
lpstat -p says the printer is available and is printing.
I configured this as a serial printer and the default printer.
I know the printer and the cable are good.
There are no error messages on the printer display.
Does anybody know where I can find the port settings for this and do I need
a special cable such as a null MODEM cable to make this work? I will
summarize this and any other info anybody has to offer.
Thanks,
Loring Safford lsafford@mitretek.org
Mitretek Systems - Z553 phone: (703)610-2818
7525 Colshire Drive fax: (703)610-1603
McLean VA 22102-3481
In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
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