From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 15 17:22:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.201.55.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EDB537B69B for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Received: from localhost (jwg2@localhost) by adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA72401; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:20:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray To: Jeffrey San Diego Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot print In-Reply-To: <000a01bfa711$5473efb0$2157fd3f@penguin> 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 Did you run lpd as root? Must turn on the print daemon before you can print. lpc is a good friend for seeing what is going on. lpc > lpc status lp lp0 If you are still having problems include a copy of /etc/printcap Jeff On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Jeffrey San Diego wrote: > 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?) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message