home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!netsys!pagesat!spssig.spss.com!uchinews!ellis!sip1
- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: NEC P2200 Driver Needed.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.204434.20386@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1993Jan26.170527.25827@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan27.072451.12174@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:44:34 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- In article <1993Jan27.072451.12174@netcom.com> sagan@netcom.com (Mike May) writes:
- >: > I'm looking for a driver that will work my NEC Pinwriter 2200 printer.
- >: >I've tried the basic drivers: Epson 24pin, Epson LQ500, IBM Proprinter,
- >: >to no avail, and have look in Hobbes with out any success. Do any
- >: >net.people know which driver will work with this printer? TIA.
- >: What sort of errors or problems are you encountering? One of these
- >: drivers should have worked.
- > The Epson driver says "Cannot write to LPT1:" and the IBM driver says
- >"The printer is not turned on, turn it on." Well I checked the port,
- >I only have one LPT port.. But as I write this, I may have figured it out.
- >OS/2 doesn't like IRQ sharing, If I remenber correct, and my Sound Blaster
- >MAY be on IRQ7 as well, If this si correct, WILL OS/2 give me those errors?
- >If They Don't share IRQ's what else MIGHT be wrong?? TIA (again:)
-
- Well, let's cross that bridge when we come to it, but you've
- identified the problem, I think. Move the SoundBlaster off IRQ 7 --
- you can't share interrupts on an AT bus computer (usually). IRQ 5 is
- normally free (LPT2).
-
- --
- Timothy F. Sipples | READ the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- of Chicago, 60637 | [Post to ONE newsgroup only AFTER reading the List.]
-