From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 15 12:32:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pimout6-int.prodigy.net (pimout6-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B55FD37B5A7 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j.sandiego@prodigy.net) Received: from penguin (NYCMA090-0287.splitrock.net [63.253.87.33]) by pimout6-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA57976 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: <000a01bfa711$5473efb0$2157fd3f@penguin> From: "Jeffrey San Diego" To: Subject: Cannot print Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:32:24 -0400 Organization: Prodigy Internet 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 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried to run a test print by doing "lptest | lpr". Then I checked the print queue by doing lpq. I got this message even with my printer turned on: waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) Then I tried to print directly by doing "lptest > /dev/lpt0". I got the message cannot create /dev/lpt0: no such device or addresses I checked to see the device by doing "ls -l /dev/lpt0" and confirmed that it's there. I recently recompiled the kernel because the parallel port device I had on GENERIC is nlpt0, not lpt0. All of the three lines, below, required for parallel printing are there: controller ppbus0 device ppc0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 device lpt0 at ppbus? The second line above is the only entry I have on the file using irq 7. Then finally I replaced my printer cable to an IEEE 1284 compliant one. I was forced to do so because the HP printer software on my other disk partition , Windows 95/Windows NT, was telling me that I need to replace the cable to be able to do bi-directional printing. This did not solve my FreeBSD problem. In fact, hardly anything changed as before when I still had my old printer cable. I am using a HP 722C Deskjet printer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message