From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 19:14:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449DE37B830 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 19:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.sandiego@prodigy.net) Received: from penguin (NYCMA080-0493.splitrock.net [63.253.82.239]) by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA57664 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <001001bfaa6e$1cbdaba0$ef52fd3f@penguin> From: "Jeffrey San Diego" To: Subject: Still unable to print Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:13:27 -0400 Organization: Prodigy Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFAA4C.7CC33EB0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFAA4C.7CC33EB0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am still unable to print. I have checked all possible things pointed = out in the FreeBSD book and nothing seems to work. - I did "lptest > /dev/lpt0" and it returned "cannot create /dev/lpt0: = no such device or addresses" though /dev/lpt0 does exist. - "lptest | lpr" yielded "waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)", = but my printer is turned on. - lpd is running at startup so I don't need to run lpd manually. I don't think it's a hardware problem because I am able to do = bi-directional printing from my other partition which is Windows = 95/Windows NT. I have all of the following lines required for parallel = printing: controller ppbus0 device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 device lpt0 at ppbus? I use an HP 722C Deskjet printer. -Jeffrey ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BFAA4C.7CC33EB0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I am still unable to print. I = have checked=20 all possible things pointed out in the FreeBSD book and nothing seems to = work.
 
- I did  "lptest > = /dev/lpt0" and=20 it returned  "cannot create /dev/lpt0: no such device or=20 addresses"
  though /dev/lpt0 = does=20 exist.
- "lptest | lpr" = yielded  "waiting=20 for lp to become ready (offline?)", but my printer is turned = on.
- lpd is running at startup so = I don't=20 need to run lpd manually.
 
I don't think it's a hardware = problem=20 because I am able to do bi-directional printing from my other partition = which is=20 Windows 95/Windows NT. I have all of the following lines required for = parallel=20 printing:
 
controller ppbus0
device = ppc0 at isa?=20 port? tty irq 7
device lpt0 at ppbus?

I use an HP 722C Deskjet = printer.
 
-Jeffrey
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