From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 18 18:10:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:10:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vnode.vmunix.com (vnode.vmunix.com [209.112.4.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10024 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 18:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@vnode.vmunix.com) Received: (from mark@localhost) by vnode.vmunix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14955; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:17:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mark) Message-ID: <19980218211733.52794@vmunix.com> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:17:33 -0500 From: Mark Mayo To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: lpt0: Device Busy ?? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there. The strangest thing happened today with my printer... I've had the printer working just fine with apsfilter/lpd and shared with samba, but today, it seems I simply can't communicate with the darned thing! :-) A 'lpc status' or 'lpq' will show that the printer is offline, and lpd is waiting for it to come back (ready). The problem is that I can't imagine why I can't talk tot he printer. If I cat a file to /dev/lpt0 I get a lpt0: Device Busy error. What whould cause the lpt0 device to be busy (I even shutdown the machine and printer and then brought everything back up - looks good but as soon as I send anything manually or through lpd it goes "offline", since the device is busy..) ? TIA for any ideas, I'm stumped.. -Mark P.S. It's a HP LaserJet 6P, and yes, there's paper in the tray and it can print the Demo and Test pages fine. :-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Mayo mark@vmunix.com RingZero Comp. http://www.vmunix.com/mark finger mark@vmunix.com for my PGP key and GCS code ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -UGU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message