Hi,

In the meantime I have tried a gazillion IRQ and jumper settings,
kernel options and other stuff and I have managed to make the printer
work. Via /dev/lpa0 I can print.

Nonetheless I still get the "lpt0: printer offline" error from the
kernel. I have tried it with an external parallel io card and had the
same problem, so I am pretty sure that I can rule out hardware defects
or irq collisions.

Does anyone know of a bug or problem in the irq-driven parallel
driver? The polling version seems to work, even though it complains
about numerous things, such as "printer offline" or "out of paper". I
have even tried a different printer and a different cable, all with
the same result.

Any ideas?

	-peter