From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 19 17:17:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logisticsoftware.co.nz (logisticsoftware.co.nz [202.37.163.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB79152EB for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 17:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by logisticsoftware.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA02233; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:17:21 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:17:21 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Jeanette Parker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing In-Reply-To: <000001bf02ef$773710c0$6664bcbc@vaio> 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 Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jeanette Parker wrote: > Hello World, > > At least that is what I would like to print. But I can't get freeBSD to > drive my printer (HP Deskjet 820cse) > > I have used MAKEDEV to make lpt0, it's there in /dev now. > Then I typed in dmesg | grep lpt0, and got the following: > lpt0: on ppbus 0 > lpt0: interupt-driven port > Next I try: > lp -d lpt0 Hello > and get > lpr: lpt0: unknown printer > Also, I can't get any response from lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > I have read the book and the online handbook. Now I am at my wits end > (arrrgghhh). Did you read the part about setting up /etc/printcap? lp, lpr will not work unless you've set this up correctly. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Live your own life, for you will die your own death To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message