Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:20:38 -0800 From: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: printer problem Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000314201950.009517d0@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Hello, As one of processes of moving from Window to FreeBSD, I started to work on printer now. I have Panasonic KX-P6500 laser printer and on first try of "lptest > /dev/lpt0", it printed one line of ASCII chracters on first page and two blank page. And I thought, "hmm, that's odd. Let me try to set up printcap and see what happen." So I edited printcap like this : ########################## lp|panasonic|local Panasonic KX-P6500:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/lpfilter: ########################## And "lptest > /dev/lpt0" gives me 3 blank pages. I tried spooler but all jobs sit at the queue. I tried polled mode with "lptcontrol -p" but nothing changed. That was yesterday and today after reading handbook, I added following to my kernel : ########################### device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr ########################### That gave me error saying there is no driver for lptdriver. After reading LINT I changed it to : ########################### device olpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr ########################### And that still gave error -- (no olptdriver). So I decided to go back to do ppbus way so I changed back to the way it was : ########################### # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 controller ppbus0 # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt0 at ppbus? # Printer ########################### And now, I don't even get lpt0 from dmesg !!! "lptest > /dev/lpt0" tell me that lpt0 is not configured. I see lpt0 lpt1 lpt2 and lpt3 at /dev. Following is my dmesg ########################### ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppb0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Panasonic KX-P6500> PRINTER GDI ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0 plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0 ########################### As you can see, it doesn't see lpt0 anymore. What did I do wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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