Comment 7 for bug 213081

Hi,

Same problem here. I have a Hawking HPS3P with an HP Laserjet 4L attached. Worked great for 3 years, first on Suse, Ubuntu 7.04, then 7.10, using lpd://192.168.0.100/lpt2. Upgraded to 8.04 from 7.10, (Through Update Mgr) on this machine and now lpd is broken. The Ready and Data lights light up on the printer, but the printer does nothing. If I push the panel button a page will print, but only a thin garbled line. From then on, about every 5 to 10 min. the data light comes back on and nothing happens until I press the printer panel button, and then another thin garbled line prints. This goes on forever.

I ran the 8.04 live disk and had the same problem. I ran the 7.10 live disk and could print to it no problem. I fired up a spare with 7.10 on it and can print to it no problem. I finally connected the printer directly to the parallel port on this 8.04 machine and can print just fine.

Would sure like to get this fixed! I share that printer with 5 machines, and like the fact that no other server computer has to be on in order to print to the 4L. I am still a noob when it comes to error log files and such, mostly because I haven't had any problems with Ubuntu! So if you would like some output file or another, please give me detailed instructions. I did run the "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/lpd" and it had the correct results.

Thanks!