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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Printer on IRQ5 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.003446.1534@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 00:34:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.113411.7282@news.uit.no>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Nov12.113411.7282@news.uit.no> geiri@stud.cs.uit.no (Geir Inge Jensen) writes:
- >Does there exist a way to get the printer work an LPT2 and IRQ5 ? I have
- >tried to choose LPT2 in the printer configuration window, but it wont
- >print. And the strange thing is that in any other program, it says that the
- >printer is on LPT1.OS2, even if I have chosen it to be on LPT2!
- >I know that LPT1 have to be on IRQ7, but is it so for LPT2 too ? Am I
- >really sticked to IRQ7 ?
-
- No, LPT2 should be on IRQ 5. You've got it right.
-
- You might have a bad cable or an interrupt conflict. Swap cables with
- a known, working one. Also, double check everything in your system to
- make sure nothing else is trying to use IRQ 5.
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