From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 14:32: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.visp.telinco.net (smtp-1.visp.telinco.net [212.1.130.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6F937B400 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.1.137.69] (helo=me01) by smtp-1.visp.telinco.net with smtp (Exim 3.32 #1) id 170SwY-0006eW-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:00:46 +0100 Message-ID: <001c01c1ebcd$532a7900$458901d4@me01> From: "Philip Pereira" To: Subject: Printing - it should be easy, shouldn't it? Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:07:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey "smarties", Am trying to get something printed from FreeBSD - but nothing seems to come out. I've tried sending itmes such as: # echo hello > /dev/lpt0 But I get nothing! I've even tried to connect two machines via a PLIP connection, but I still get nothing! My printer is a Cannon BJC-3000 which works under RedHat quite happily. It's driving me insane!!!! PLEASE HELP! Follwing is an output from the "dmesg" command: Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28 14:31:56 GMT 2002 murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium 4 (1296.07-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf07 Stepping = 7 Features=0x3febfbff,ACC> real memory = 133955584 (130816K bytes) avail memory = 125673472 (122728K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0496000. md0: Malloc disk Using $PIR table, 11 entries at 0xc00f3130 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 11 pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 adv0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xfeaffc00-0xfeaffcff irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci2 adv0: Warning EEPROM Checksum mismatch. Using default device parameters adv0: AdvanSys SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, queue depth 16 pci2: (vendor=0x1274, dev=0x5880) at 10.0 irq 11 pci2: (vendor=0x158b, dev=0x0015) at 11.0 irq 10 rl0: port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xfeaff400-0xfeaff4ff irq 5 at device 12.0 on pci2 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:bf:42:8c:2d miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 uhci0: port 0xef40-0xef5f irq 3 at device 31.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ugen0: ALTEC Lansing Multimedia ASC495 Speakers, rev 1.00/0.00, addr 2 pci0: (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2443) at 31.3 irq 5 uhci1: port 0xef80-0xef9f irq 10 at device 31.4 on pci0 usb1: on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered orm0: