unseen added devices

George Gingold georgegi at aanet.com.au
Tue May 3 10:14:22 UTC 2005


Trent Lloyd wrote:

>Are you sure your printer attaches to the serial port? I highly doubt
>that, you are most likely looking for the 'parallel port' (The port
>looks similar to the older DB25 serial ports)
>
>The printer manager should detect it if its plugged in during boot (you
>still have to open printer manager yourself)
>If that is not the case, you should be able to add it, using parallel
>ort #1
>
>As for the scanner, you might want too look at what those sites had to
>say about it working.
>
>Unfortunately 'working' doesn't mean 'works on ubuntu' or 'works with
>little effort', it can often mean 'working after some setup and
>configuration'
>
>If you want a list of what ubuntu does out of the box / fairly easy, you
>would have to look on the ubuntu site, in the hardware list under the
>wiki.
>
>Cheers,
>Trent
>
>On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 15:18 -0500, taeb wrote:
>  
>
>>I have been gifted an old scanner (MicroTek SancMaker E3) and an old
>>laser printer (HP LaserJet 5MP).  I've looked at various web sites, and
>>sane says the scanner is "good" supported, and linuxprinting.org says
>>the printer works "perfectly".  I figured I would plug them in, boot,
>>and they'd be recognized during boot, and I'd be off to the races.
>>There must be more to it than that. :)
>>
>>My system: Mac 7300 w/G3 upgrade, running Hoary. 
>>
>>I plugged the printer into a serial port after verifying the printer
>>worked under Mac OS.  When I tried to configure it using the
>>gnome->System->Administration->Printing facility, it did not find any
>>local printer.  /dev/ttyS[01] are present, but sending a small file to
>>them using cat does not produce any output.  dmesg says they were found
>>during boot:
>>ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf3013020 (irq = 15) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
>>ttyS1 at MMIO 0xf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
>>
>>Similary for the scanner -- a scsi device -- gnome's Xsane image scanning
>>device does not see it.  It's been a while since I've tried it -- mostly
>>trying to get the printer to work -- so I don't recall what all I've
>>tried with it.
>>
>>I'm guessing that -- at the very least -- I need to load a module or two
>>-- but I have not come across the magic document to indicate what I need
>>to do.  Any help or pointers to same would be very much appreciated at
>>this point.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>tony
>>
>>    
>>
HP Laserjets (all of them) plug in into a parallel (printer) port. 
Howewer, it may have also a serial input. If the input is 25 pin port on 
the printer than it is a serial port, if it is a slot with two wire 
clips, than it is parallel.
Regards George




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