From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 07:17:08 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA22282 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 07:17:08 -0800 Received: from localhost (ppp2-16.ruralnet.net [205.198.193.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA22218 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 07:16:32 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA01099 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 02:25:55 -0700 Message-Id: <199510310925.CAA01099@localhost> X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.ruralnet.net: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: tianlin@iguana.ruralnet.net Subject: PLEASE HELP: DEClasser printing Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 02:25:49 -0700 From: Tianlin WANG Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Recently, I purchased DEClasser 5100 printer. I hooked it up through parallele port to my Pentium 100 with FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP and DOS installed. I set postscript as the default mode. Under DOS, the printer works fine. This indicates that printer itself and interface cable connection have no problem. Under BSD, however, I cannot get postscript file out to printer. The problem is that when I send a postscript file usng lpr try.ps, the computer send a signal to printer that READY button in priter is brinking and waiting. However, lpd never sends the queued job to the priter. I notice lpd is running and I can use lpc successfully. I would really appreciate any hints. I have already spent two days on this problem with no solution. The following is my printcap and the like # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 lp|local DEClasser 5100:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: /usr/bin ll lp* -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 3022 Jul 27 03:50 lp -r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 16384 Jul 27 03:50 lpq -r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 20480 Jul 27 03:50 lpr -r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 16384 Jul 27 03:50 lprm /usr/sbin ll lpd -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 40960 Jul 27 03:50 lpd /dev ll lp* crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 128 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 129 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl1 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 130 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl2 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Oct 30 11:57 lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Aug 8 19:46 lpt1 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Aug 8 19:46 lpt2 Best Regards Tianlin Wang Newsham Hybrids (USA) Inc. E-mail tianlin@iguana.ruralnet.net P.O. Box 316 Phone (719) 829-4730 (office) Wiley, CO 81092 Fax (719) 829-4620 (office)