From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 4 9:31:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.omicnet.com (ip-208-181-72-171.adsl.radiant.net [208.181.72.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B2B37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inspector2 (130-94-160-46-dsl.hevanet.com [130.94.160.46]) by www.omicnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id JAA13044; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:31:11 -0700 From: inspector.us@omicnet.com To: johann@broadpark.no, sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 09:30:39 -0700 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: OMIC Portland In-Reply-To: <1023193948.315.144.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Message-Id: Subject: Re: PRINT: HP DeskJet 820Cxi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.01 build 1041 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 6/4/2002 5:32:25 AM, "S. Roberts" wrote: >Hi Johann, > I saw your post that relates to an earlier post I had concerning my >wanting to get my parallel printing to work - I also am hoping to get my >FreeBSD box to print to a HP Deskjet 820 Cxi for Windows - Professional >Series printer here without any success so far. I should say, that I've >not had many replies to my original post (sorry). > >I saw in your post that you actually have your ppc0 port detected >correctly by your system, which is the problem I have. On boot, this is >all I get for my ppc0: >$ cat dmesg.boot | grep ppc >ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range >$ > >Here is the kernel support I have compiled in: >device scbus # SCSI bus (required) >device da # Direct Access (disks) > ># Parallel port >device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 >device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) >device lpt # Printer >device plip # TCP/IP over parallel >device ppi # Parallel port interface device >device vpo # Requires scbus and da > >Needless to say, I can't get parallel port printing going from the start >here. Did you have to do any particular Kernel / bios configs in order >to get your parallel port configured? > >Sorry I can't be any help to your case, but I'm hoping you could at >least assist me in getting somewhere with mine - then at I could see if >I could get on working on getting this printer to work as well. > >Thanks for any help in advance! > >Stacey > > >On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 06:53, johann@broadpark.no wrote: >> ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 >> ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode >> ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP >> Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: >> ppbus0: SCP,VLINK >> plip0: on ppbus0 >> lpt0: on ppbus0 >> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port >> ppi0: on ppbus0 >> >> There's no doubt about it, it does get detected. Then why can't I lptest > >> /dev/lpt0? >> >> Note, as modems have winmodems this printer is labeled 'For Windows'. I hope >> that won't interfere with anything. >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- Johann >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >-- >Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science >Network Systems Engineer > Nor have I. I have the 820 Cse, and finally found a CUPS driver module for it. See www.cups.org for more info. The driver is called 'pnm2ppa', and it requires that you edit the makefile a bit before installing (I think it still needs to be 'adapted' for FreeBSD. This is one of several models of DJ that need this 'special' driver. I am a newbie, so if anyone gets this to work, PLEASE let me know! Thanks, Best Regards, Joshua Lokken OMIC Portland Branch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message