From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 21:35:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F96E37B85C for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.24]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:31:17 -0700 Message-ID: <38FE776D.8502D5F9@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 20:20:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeffrey San Diego Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Still unable to print References: <001001bfaa6e$1cbdaba0$ef52fd3f@penguin> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Jeffrey San Diego wrote: > > 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. I really think the HP-722 is one of the earliest winprinters and that you have to have Windows running before you can use it. The box for the one I owned for a very short time also states that it can't be networked. This doesn't mean that you won't be able to use it but you may have to look into the project that deals with such printers. Kent > > -Jeffrey -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message