From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 25 14: 6:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nemesis.systems.pipex.net (nemesis.systems.pipex.net [62.190.223.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AB2637B406 for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 14:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ThisAddressDoesNotExist (userhh092.dsl.pipex.com [62.190.215.92]) by nemesis.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4FB160000FD for ; Sat, 25 May 2002 22:06:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: Setting up parallel printer, no lptN in dmesg From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: FreeBSD-Questions Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-q/bIJYMWo0mLk+kzZVzN" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 25 May 2002 22:01:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1022360516.301.37.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 --=-q/bIJYMWo0mLk+kzZVzN Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I'm trying to get an old HP Deskjet 820Cxi printer to work here at home. In following ch. 11 of the Handbook I got to the software set uo section where you have to check to see if the kernel supports the parallel port interface by checking dmesg. Here's what I get: # dmesg | grep ppc0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range # dmesg | grep ppbus # dmesg | grep lpt* grep: No match. # dmesg | grep lpt0 #=20 What's the message: "ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range" mean? From what the handbook says I need all three to be configured in order to get parallel printing to work with FreeBSD. Here's what's actually in the Kernel for the parallel port section: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device #device vpo # Requires scbus and da Not knowing (or paying attention at system install time some time ago) about any of this, I had made the devices seen here: # ls -la /dev/lpt* crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Apr 30 23:30 /dev/lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt1 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt2 #=20 Needless to say, the following bits of getting printing in the Handbook will work: # lptcontrol -i -d lpt0 lptcontrol: open: No such file or directory # lptcontrol -p -d lpt0 lptcontrol: open: No such file or directory #=20 # lptest > /dev/lpt0 /dev/lpt0: Device not configured. #=20 Please help if anyone can! Thanks, Stacey --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-q/bIJYMWo0mLk+kzZVzN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I'm trying to get an old HP Deskjet 820Cxi printer to work here at home. In following ch. 11 of the Handbook I got to the software set uo section where you have to check to see if the kernel supports the parallel port interface by checking dmesg. Here's what I get: # dmesg | grep ppc0 ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range # dmesg | grep ppbus # dmesg | grep lpt* grep: No match. # dmesg | grep lpt0 #=20 What's the message: "ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range" mean? From what the handbook says I need all three to be configured in order to get parallel printing to work with FreeBSD. Here's what's actually in the Kernel for the parallel port section: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device #device vpo # Requires scbus and da Not knowing (or paying attention at system install time some time ago) about any of this, I had made the devices seen here: # ls -la /dev/lpt* crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Apr 30 23:30 /dev/lpt0 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt1 crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt2 #=20 Needless to say, the following bits of getting printing in the Handbook will work: # lptcontrol -i -d lpt0 lptcontrol: open: No such file or directory # lptcontrol -p -d lpt0 lptcontrol: open: No such file or directory #=20 # lptest > /dev/lpt0 /dev/lpt0: Device not configured. #=20 Please help if anyone can! Thanks, Stacey - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPO/7wfdn4A8qiCO5EQI0bgCfSmBCptgYS12Jic9Yy+PC63W2hP0AoMZO yLbAWsw89ZejZf3hSC3VUfxz =VObG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-q/bIJYMWo0mLk+kzZVzN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message