more on printer problem

[drstrip@gnome.cs.sandia.gov (David R. Strip)]

When we last visited with our hero he had just
received some advice to try. The namespace problems
were a no-op - he had rebooted before trying anything.
As to the null modem vs. none, that has now been tried,
and the result was that without the null modem, life
was worse than before.

Now we try not loading the print spooler, just printing to the
device. Within moments of the Hardcopy file command a page
appears with the words "Error: ioerror". The screen flashes
and a function 0-s brings us a window that declares that the
printer did not respond to an EOF marker. A subsequent attempt
yields serial unit 1 locked.

Still looking for something to try the loopback test suggested. 
More input from the folks in the audience?

Thanks
D Strip
drstrip@cs.sandia.gov