Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:32:24 -0400 From: "Jeffrey San Diego" <j.sandiego@prodigy.net> To: <questions@FREEBSD.org> Subject: Cannot print Message-ID: <000a01bfa711$5473efb0$2157fd3f@penguin>
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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
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