make deskjet work/deskjet driver for unix

[John R. Levine]

In article <1990Sep4.171428.5960 at cs.umn.edu> you write:
>My friend has a 386 computer with UNIX.  The deskjet printer does
>not run under unix, nor under the vp/ix dos emulator under unix. ...
>I've been told it is the driver for the deskjet under unix.

You have in all likelihood been told wrong.  I have a deskjet plugged into
my Intel 302 Unix box running Interactive 2.2 Unix with the standard printer
driver and it works fine.

The most likely problem is that you have the devices configured wrong.  If
your printer interface is on your monochrome screen adapter, your printer is
probably called /dev/lp0.  If the printer interface is on the motherboard or
on another card, it's probably /dev/lp1.

Another possibility is that you have an interrupt conflict of some sort.
Make sure that the printer interface is set up so interrupt on IRQ7, and
that no other card in the system uses IRQ7, not even one that the system
isn't using.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at esegue.segue.boston.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!esegue!johnl