From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 7:38:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com (dsl-64-193-218-89.telocity.com [64.193.218.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D515A37B65D for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:38:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31094 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Feb 2001 15:35:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:35:48 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman To: Peter Shpak Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE + HP DeskJet 820cxi problem Message-ID: <20010214093548.D8539@billygoat.slb.to> Reply-To: lucas@slb.to References: <20010213153432.B2398@billygoat.slb.to> <20010213231621.7913.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010213231621.7913.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from s_ain_t@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:16:21PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > i have an HP DeskJet 820Cxi (a win printer) and i am running 4.2 > > > Stable. I have configured apsfilter, but it does not print the > > > test page. the printer is recognized during bootup. dmesg > > > points out that it is connected on ppbus0. But sending text > > > files to /dev/ppbus0 results in nothing. > > > > You normally want to use /dev/lpt0, not /dev/ppbus0. In fact, > > there's (normally) no such node as /dev/ppbus0; you've probably > > just been creating a file called /dev/ppbus0. > > you the problem is that the printer does nothing no matter where i > send the file. saying > > cp blah.txt > /dev/lpt0 > > does nothing.. sorry i forgot to mention that. it does not print in > BSD no matter what. but it does in winXX.. any other > suggestions??? Try `cat blahblah.txt >/dev/lpt0', not `cp'. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message