From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 18 16:21:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A27E516A41F for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:21:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivan.roth@free.fr) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007EE43D46 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:21:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ivan.roth@free.fr) Received: from imp3-g19.free.fr (imp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.3]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56BB84420C for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:43 +0100 (CET) Received: by imp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id 206B0543EC; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from 83.214.71.138 ([83.214.71.138]) by imp4.free.fr (Horde) with HTTP for ; Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20060118172146.kzky6ob74og8kowc@imp4.free.fr> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:46 +0100 From: ivan.roth@free.fr To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.2) Subject: loosing hair inside canon printer... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:21:44 -0000 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: 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: on ppc0 ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x28 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic chipset (ECP-only) in ECP mode ppbus0: on ppc0 ppbus0: on ppc0 ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 ppi0: on ppbus0 ppbus0: on ppc0 ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 ppi0: 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.