Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:46 +0100 From: ivan.roth@free.fr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: loosing hair inside canon printer... Message-ID: <20060118172146.kzky6ob74og8kowc@imp4.free.fr>
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Hi, Thanks all first, for the help you gave me yesterday. I begin hating Canon. Still nothing printed. I am going to gathered all information about what I did and hope you could give me something :) For the moment, I only want to be able to print the more disgusting raw text, even only "hello world!", without the "!" if it is too much complicated. But I want it with a line like echo "hello world" > /dev/lpt0 Why do this so simple line not work? I don't know anything about ECP, EPP and Centronics, but I tested all the configuration from BIOS. I have "Standard", "ECP", "EPP" and "EPP+ECP" choices. For each one I have to choose IRQ, DMA and sometimes another one. For now it is set to Standard, IRQ 7 DMA 3 (BIOS default). This said, I have this in dmesg: ---------------- ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 flags 0x28 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 ppc0: <Standard parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x28 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Canon i865/1.13> PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0 ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Canon i865/1.13> PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 ---------------- simple question: how freebsd know about the name of my printer? note the flags 0x28 I had to /boot/device.hints after reading a tutorial. I am going to remove it as it makes nothing better. And maybe it is the reason of my last issue. # chkprintcap chkprintcap: WARNING: found 1 entries when skimming /etc/printcap chkprintcap: WARNING: but only found 0 queues to process! Note that this is already too far since I want an output with redirection (> /dev/lpt0). Of course, I am still searching over the web for some still unknown website with useful information. -- Thank you, Ivan.
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