From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 4 17:55:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84EE4151B1 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:55:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from tasajohns (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA29026; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:13:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) From: "Andrew Johns" To: "Parker Brown" , "Tech Support" Subject: RE: "lpt: lp: unknown printer" Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 10:54:16 +1000 Message-ID: <000001bec680$e8192c70$4001a8c0@tasajohns.turnaround.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <377FF79D.2669802E@gte.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Could you please send the contents of your /etc/printcap, as well as the filter program you're trying to use. Also, please include details on how you start the printer daemon lpd. Basically, we'll need more info to help you... Cheers > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Parker Brown > Sent: Monday, 5 July 1999 10:09 > To: Tech Support > Subject: "lpt: lp: unknown printer" > > > That's what I get when I use the lpr command, and printcap > contains the > alias lp, and lp=/dev/lpt0 (which I created with MAKEDEV). As root, > running the lptest described in the Handbook gives me one > line of output > followed by two blank pages. > > Please help. I've scoured both the Handbook and "The > Complete FreeBSD", > tried several other things, and have noplace else to go. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message