From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 22:03:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225AA16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:03:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D214243D48 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:03:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brianjohn@fusemail.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1D0Rpb-0000FM-QC for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:03:09 -0600 Message-ID: <420FCEA2.5020307@fusemail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:03:14 -0600 From: Brian John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050203) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: trouble printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:03:18 -0000 Hello, I am having trouble printing from my HP Deskjet 710C printer. It is hooked up via parallel port and I can print fine with it from Windows. However, I can't get it to work in FreeBSD. I followed the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html Everything seems to be fine. But when I try to test the printer using a command similar to this: # cat file > /dev/lptN or this: lptest > /dev/lpt0 nothing happens. Does anyone have a clue what I might have done wrong? Thanks for the help /Brian