K8CC wrote:
>Steve,
>
>You might take a look at the BIOS settings for the LPT configuration -
>specifically, the LPT port may be set up as an EPP (enhanced parallel port)
>instead of a SPP (standard parallel port). (I'm sure about the EPP
>designation, I'm not so sure about SPP, but its something like that).
It's the first thing I checked when the problem arose. SPP is the BIOS
default, but I tried the other settings just for the hell of it. No
dice.
>I'm not sure exactly what the differences are between EPP and SPP. Modern
>printers use the LPT port in new, bi-directional ways from the old days,
>and its perhaps inevitable that at some point they abandon compatibility
>down to the register level which is what NA needs.
Yep, now we can be told "put paper in the tray, IDIOT". It's wonderful.
>Responding to Tom Homewood's comment, I doubt the operating system is the
>problem. If it was (as would be the case with Win2000) then the keying
>would not work either. The keying and PTT signals are simply different
>bits in the same register - assuming no hardware damage, if one works both
>should work.
Now that I think about it, I had a bad LPT port on a new motherboard
a few years ago, so this wouldn't be the first if that turns out to
be it.
I just thought I'd try the lazy way first. I'll dig in a little deeper
now and report back.
Thanks Dave,
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Steve K8LX
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