From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 11:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11775 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11718 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:15:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA01036; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 11:15:31 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: spork cc: fbsdqs Subject: Re: HP 722C In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Spike Gronim wrote: > Hello. > > I have tried both the djet500 and cdj550 as aps drivers. My > printer responds to boot time probes on lpt0. It works fine via Winbloze. > I have typed lptcontrol -p as root, to turn on polled printer control as > the FAQ says. My log file in /var/spool/cdj550-letter-auto-mono/log says: > [Total: 1 page on 1 sheet] > It has not reported errors to the lpd-errs file. Printer has not responded > to anything I have tried to print in the least bit. (BTW, the printer uses > special two-way parrelell cable) > Anyone know what is wrong with it? Data's not getting thru. Does `lptest >/dev/lpt0; echo '\f'>/dev/lpt0` convince the printer to do anything, where file is a text file? If you get a line of output or two, that is good... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message