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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:57:04 +0200
From:      stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lpt0 always busy
Message-ID:  <20050927175704.24f6d668.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20050927172753.09042e75.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
References:  <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509252330.05256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050925181238.6bfe01fb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509260849.50510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050927102636.22f39e53.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <20050927172753.09042e75.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>

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> > 
> > its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :)
> 
> Aha, that explains wy it will not work. see this:
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-LBP-460
> 
> the printer can print ascii text at all, it is a raster-only win* gdi
> printer. It is the driver who does all the work.

i know that this printer will never work with fbsd or even linux so i
hoped i could setup a qemu with win98 and just passing lpt0 throu ...
but unfort. this does not work :(

what i need is a possibility to give qemu/vmware access to lpt0 without
any checking done by fbsd 

thx,
regards,
stan



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