From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 12:11:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E4016A400 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul.belair@rogers.com) Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B8CE13C46A for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul.belair@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 24073 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2008 12:11:53 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=YWr14QKleXT3bgBilPw5y+TjJ32SG8HRSd4vyT5HfML4SMj8o+U6vMtexDtCtJJnMrgZoip6vllp25hDFh18VXKlvFGIJV3XBlJqwXNyv5FnDbs4CshKHugJfjKyjYC06wQqUm5Gp9VAk8Ej6tXiqpuzpsVzp49u/BBqivYQsgI= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.186?) (paul.belair@rogers.com@99.245.244.139 with plain) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Feb 2008 12:11:53 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: cODqA3EVM1lJFz_tboClZI_faXDm39ySBdiYvqSq9DhaMxPO1OdEXN32_zPTtZ60nA-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Charlie & To: Modulok , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:09:08 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <884285.14864.qm@web88309.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <64c038660802211808r42475b16p1e68fc11bbf21500@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <64c038660802211808r42475b16p1e68fc11bbf21500@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802220709.08391.> Cc: Subject: Re: HP LaserJet not uploading firmware permission denied ulpt0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:11:55 -0000 On February 21, 2008 09:08:58 pm you wrote: > On 2/21/08, Paul Belair wrote: > > I'm using 6.3 FreeBSD > > > > Is there a fix that works. > > > > I have a hp laserjet 1000 printer. > > You've got to be logged in as the 'root' user, (or a user who has > write-access to /dev/ulpt0, which by default is only 'root'). > > 1. Ensure you are the root user. You can check this by executing the > command: id 2. If you are the root user and it still does not work, what is > the output of the command: ls -l /dev/ulpt0 > 3. What is the exact command you're executing to upload the firmware > and what is the exact error it reports? > > -Modulok- Thanks in advance, since you replied I did a fresh install and use kde. I'm awaiting instructions for this machine. crw-r--r-- 1 root operator 0, 129 Feb 22 06:22 /dev/ulpt0