From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 15:37:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hose.mail.pipex.net (hose.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 40E0437B404 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1987 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2002 22:35:29 -0000 Received: from userhh092.dsl.pipex.com (HELO ThisAddressDoesNotExist) (62.190.215.92) by smtp-4.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2002 22:35:29 -0000 Subject: Printing to HP 820 Cxi from FreeBSD 4.5 Stable From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 30 Apr 2002 23:31:36 +0100 Message-Id: <1020205897.344.30.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm having problems printing to an HP DeskJet 820 Cxi (parallel) printer connected to one of my machines. I've tried the Handbook setup for using lp, lpr and installed apsfilter-7.2.2 as well after my earlier attempts fail. The thing is, my printer does *not* appear in any of the lists of drivers when running apsfilter setup as per the pkg-message. So I know that this was not a good start. But I would have thought that the comments in the Handbook, Unleashed as well as The Complete FreeBSD about how simple this should be, would somehow mitigate against this. However, no matter which driver I try, I keep getting no results. lptest returns no output as expected, but everything else fails: ps waux | grep lp root 464 0.0 0.2 948 672 ?? I 8:18PM 0:00.01 gnome-pty-helper root 70608 0.0 0.2 964 704 ?? Is 11:26PM 0:00.02 lpd root 70609 0.0 0.2 964 704 ?? S 11:26PM 0:00.00 lpd lptest > /dev/lpt0 /dev/lpt0: Device not configured. lpq waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st root 8 (standard input) 105 bytes 2nd root 9 (standard input) 105 bytes Is anyone out there actually running one of these printers? Can you assist, please? Thanks to all those that might reply. Stacey Demon# ls -l /dev/lpt? crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt1 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt2 Demon# -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message