Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:52:35 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: ivan.roth@free.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loosing hair inside canon printer... Message-ID: <20060118173914.R10088@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20060118172146.kzky6ob74og8kowc@imp4.free.fr> References: <20060118172146.kzky6ob74og8kowc@imp4.free.fr>
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, ivan.roth@free.fr wrote:
> This said, I have this in dmesg:
[snip]
> Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
> ppbus0: <Canon i865/1.13> PRINTER BJL,BJRaster3,BSCCe
[snip]
> simple question: how freebsd know about the name of my printer?
I imagine FreeBSD queries the parallel port to see what's there
("Probing..."), and then the printer responds with the information
displayed above.
> # chkprintcap
> chkprintcap: WARNING: found 1 entries when skimming /etc/printcap
> chkprintcap: WARNING: but only found 0 queues to process!
Could it be there is no spool directory? There should be something like
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:
in /etc/printcap; make sure that directory exists.
Also, is lpd running? What output does
ps -aux | grep lpd
produce? The simplest way to run lpd is to put the following in
/etc/rc.conf:
lpd_enable="YES" # Run the line printer daemon.
Hope this helps.
--
Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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