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In <4u5g6g$i94@ganesh.sdstate.edu>, pc00@sdsumus.sdstate.edu writes:
>I'm in desperate need of help. My printer, Apple LaserWriter Select 360, quit working
>in OS/2 but not win-os/2 sessions. I cannot print from any OS/2 application, but I can
>print from  Word 6, using the OS/2 or windows drivers, with no problems. Here's what's
>happened in the last few weeks. 
>
>I was using the drivers that came with connect up until a couple weeks ago. The I installed
>the newest drivers I could find. Everything seemed to work fine. I then created a network
>(HP 4P plus) printer object using a template, installed the required drivers (Laserjet.drv) and
>everything seemed to work ok. Printing to either printer worked fine from OS/2 or
>win-os/2 sessions. I'm also using Faxworks so the FXprint driver was also installed. 
>
>Then one fine day Describe refused to print to my Laserwriter, although I could print to the
>network printer. IBM works printed ok to the Laserwriter as did windows apps. 

Oops! Stopped by the Warp Pharmacy today. As I was reading the solution to my
problem it occurred to me what I did to create it. When I installed my network card
there was a conflict with my sound card. I disabled the sound card at the time
because I didn't have time to fix the problem. I finally had time a few weeks ago. I
changed the irq on the sound card (from the default 5) to 11 because I didn't think it conflicted
with anything else. Lpt1 is supposed to be 7. Apparently 11 wasn't the right number because
of the problems I had with the printer. When I removed /irq from the config.sys the printer
worked properly (according to the Warp Pharmacy /irq sets the interrupt to 7, that's why
I chose 11 for my sound card). Does anyone know how would the irqfor lpt1 could be set
to 11 instead of 7?

I don't know why an irq conflict didn't occur to me. Thank god for the Warp Pharmacy. Now
I can try Star Office, go back to Describe, and say goodbye (and good riddance) to Word.

Michael Smar
College of Pharmacy
South Dakota State University
pc00@sdsumus.sdstate.edu