Re: Vary on pending

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Does it generate the device description (auto config) and not vary it on 
or are you not seeing the device at all?

If you are using baluns rather than twinax to connect them to the 
iSeries, I am guessing it is a pure physical connection problem.  Either 
the twisted pair coming and going from the iSeries to the printer IS 
twisted and not straight through or the two wires aren't properly 
crimped.  As I recall, the twisted pair option using baluns was a 
straight through connection (not twisted as phone cords are).

Pete Helgren


Raby, Steve (GE Advanced Materials, consultant) wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We have just had an office move and we moved an old 3487 terminal which controls an even 
> older label printer, now I cannot get the iSeries to recognise it. I have tried deleting 
> the DEVD and recreating it. I deleted it again and tried letting AUTOCONFIG generate the 
> device but it doesn't want to do that. Am I right in assuming that if I delete the 
> device, physically disconnect it from the network, (it is connected to the network using 
> one of those "balloon" things, which I know zilch about but am assured nothing 
> can go wrong with them), then reconnect it and switch on then the iSeries will recognise 
> a new device and create a description for it? Or is there something else I need to do? I 
> know the terminal works because I connected it in the building here before lugging it 
> across the road. I also swapped the network cable in its new home with the laser printer 
> sat next to it, the laser printer still works. I also went thru the setup (hold Space bar 
> down while switching on) to !
> ensure the switches were set. PRTDEVADR also shows that the devices are there, 
> in theory, so why won't they vary on?
>
> Confused of Raamsdonksveer.
>
> Steve Raby
> GEP Contractor (Mulix)
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