Strange printer problem booting 2.1.6[01]

Shaw Carruthers (shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 16:00:03 +0000 (GMT)

When I boot kernels 2.1.6[01] I get dmesg type output on my printer. It
is as if the console output was switched to the printer when the printer
port is initialised. It all worked fine in 2.1.59.

It happens at line 5 in the following part of the start up sequence.

#!/bin/sh
# run on boot for 2.1 kernels
/sbin/route del -net 158.152.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dummy0
/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forwarding
/bin/cat /root/ibm.ini >/dev/lp0
<---- error here
/bin/echo set sound card
/sbin/isapnp /root/pnp/try3
#/usr/local/bin/play /root/test.au &
/sbin/modprobe sound
cat /root/mic.au > /dev/audio &

ibm.ini contains printer iniialisation codes as follows:

hexdump -c ibm.ini

0000000 033 @ 033 m 003 033 C F 032
0000009

config follows;

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y

CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m

CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m

CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y

CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL2=y
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6=y

CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m

CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=m

CONFIG_SOUND=m

CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

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Shaw Carruthers - shaw@shawc.demon.co.uk
London SW14 7JW UK
This is not a sig( with homage to Magritte).