Please help - JetDirect blues

[Eduardo Grosclaude <oso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all, please help me with this!!!!!!!

My setup: JetDirect EX Plus  - Laserjet 5P - lprold spooling stuff -
Ghostscript 5.50. The apsfilter script says:
#  apsfilter    Line Printer Input Filter
#  Version:     SuSE-1.8
#  Copyright 1996-2000 SuSE GmbH
#  Author:   Werner Fink  <werner@suse.de>
#  NOTE: You really NEED bash to run this script
#  (Not)Heavily based on apsfilter-4.9 
...

(Please don't flame me for not running the latest apsfilter, I happen to
have a SuSE 7.0 installation right out of the box so I thought it should
work just like that. When things got hard, I downloaded apsfilter 6.0 but
couldn't manage to get on with it either so I'm back to the installation
packages. :P )

First I make a remote printer by using SuSE's YAST tool and then set up
the 'logical' auto, raw, ascii printers pointing to it. The 'remote' printer
works -- it outputs the normal staircase-effect text. I can even get
decent output by addressing the 'ascii' printer. When I come to "lpr
something.ps" the queues in /var/spool/lpd show some activity, then the
JetDirect gizmo flashes, then the printer blinks for some seconds, then
nothing. I had the JetDirect redirect output to my syslog. I see this from time
to time:

Mar 14 12:00:55 jetdirect  printer: offline or intervention needed
Mar 14 12:00:57 jetdirect  printer: error cleared 

Apart from that, no mail, no logs, no errors.  Could there be something wrong
with  the PCL being generated? When I purposedly send a supposedly PCL file to
the 'remote' printer all I get is one or two blank pages. I have selected
lj5gray and lj5mono drivers for the logical printers, same results. The printer
name on the JetDirect is alternatively raw or lp, same results.

How can I make this work? TIA


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Eduardo Grosclaude                  oso@uncoma.edu.ar
Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Neuquen, Argentina