Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:21:29 +1000 From: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au> To: Nicholas Lysaght <nlysaght@one.net.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MOUNTING - PRINTER Message-ID: <00062321230400.00640@dannyh.freebsd.org> References: <00062213403300.00275@myname.my.domain>
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For you ffloppy look for a port called mtools (www.freebsd.org/ports) For your printer look for apsfilter from the uri above. On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Nicholas Lysaght wrote: > Dear Sirs/Mesdames > > I have set up my FreeBSD, with the KDE Desktop on X-Windows from the CD, on my > Third Primary Partition. I run a P200-MMX with 32MB RAM, a Quantum Fireball > 6.4GB HDD, A Panasonic CW-8575 R-R/W CD-ROM, Iomega ATAPI IDE ZIP-100 Drive, A > Hewlett Packard DeskJet 694C Printer, and ScanJet 5p Scanner. > > First things first. I have installed no problems, I really like the KDE > interface, and, even better, I'm on the Internet on BSD! One of the things I > noticed, is that I can mount floppies and even Zip Drives from the KDE > interface. Firstly, I've tried the floppies (3.5 & 5.25) from the interface, > then directly from the command lin using: > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > Unfortunately, I get the error message "Incorrect Super Block." from the > command line, "...special file system" from the interface. Where am I going > wrong, and where should I be looking for answers, rather than hassling you > people? Of course, this also begs the question about my Zip Drive. "dmesg" is > not very happy about it, describing it as "buggy", but (unlike OS/2, that sees > it as a Drive) can it be formatted like a floppy, and mounted to receive data? > > Secondly, I have looked through the FreeBSD Manual for setting up my Printer. I > have checked that my port works (it does), but I'm not happy about editing > /etc/printcap yet, as there seems to be nothing that seems (to me) to relate > to my HP DeskJet 694C Printer. In both CommandLine and KDE interface, when I > print, the printer works in form feed, but no lines are actually printed. Will > I be able to print graphically, with/without colour etc? > > Finally the scanner. Sane is now on my ports, but I it runs on a proprietry scsi > card supplied by HP. Do you think there's any chance of me getting it to work > in BSD under Sane or something similar? > > Maybe I'm rushing things a bit, but maybe, the Printer and Floppies should come > first. I look forward to hear from you > > Regards > NICK > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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