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- From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Lost NeXT printer in 3.0 upgrade - how to get it back?
- Message-ID: <13851@optilink.COM>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 01:59:20 GMT
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
- Lines: 42
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- [I am writing this on behalf of someone with a machine up in the outer
- redwood boondocks.]
-
- After upgrading from 2.x (exact release unknown - somebody else's machine, and
- he ran the upgrade without noting the old release) to 3.0, the NeXT laser
- printer no longer functions.
-
- Powering the printer down and up with /usr/etc/nppower works, so there
- doesn't appear to be a physical problem.
-
- PrintManager stubbornly refuses to allow a NeXT printer to be added - the
- printer names list has an entry for "NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer", but
- it is grayed out, and none of other little menu items let me select the
- Printer port.
-
- I did "nidump printcap .", and found two entries: one for "Local Printer",
- and one for "Local_Printer".
-
- I couldn't get rid of "Local Printer" with niload, so I got into NetInfoManager
- and deleted both printer entries, in hopes that PrintManager would let me
- start fresh, or would automatically build an entry for the NeXT printer.
-
- No such luck.
-
- I built a printcap entry by hand from the residue of the original nidump,
- and niload'ed it. It doesn't work, and an attempt to do Modify in PrintManager
- complains that it can't understand the printer description.
-
- Has anyone else seen loss of the NeXT printer after 3.0 upgrade?
-
- If you have a known good printcap entry which I can niload, or a set of
- specific items to verify through NetInfoManager, and a list of any other
- files which need to be in place (any copies or links under /usr/lib/NextPrinter
- or wherever) to make the NeXT printer work under 3.0, or any other applicable
- rituals, I would very much appreciate hearing.
-
- Shame on NeXT for not providing any comprehensive documentation explaining
- the increasingly intricate printer world in 3.0. If something breaks, it
- seems impossible to diagnose and impossible to fix.
-
- Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
- Petaluma, CA
-