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Date:      Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:52:54 +0300
From:      Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cant get an HP Deskjet to work with FreeBSD 4.1
Message-ID:  <20001028155254.D381@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>
In-Reply-To: <99.bc57485.272b76a8@aol.com>; from "Plethora86@aol.com" on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:24:08PM -0400
References:  <99.bc57485.272b76a8@aol.com>

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* Plethora86@aol.com <Plethora86@aol.com> [20001028 03:26]:
=>Hi.  I'm trying to get my HP Deskjet 697C to work with FreeBSD.  I've never 
=>configured a printer with FreeBSD before so I'm a bit stuck.  The printer is 
=>on LPT0 and appears to be recognized.  But when I try to test communication 
=>with lptest, it says the device is busy.

I had enough difficulty setting up a printer, HP DeskJet 895c until I
grabbed apsfilter from the ports. Pls try it....the setup is so
straightforward....after compiling or after installing via
/stand/sysinstall, just run the SETUP file -
sh /usr/local/apsfilter/SETUP
About the 'device is busy' I'm not sure because I never saw that but you
may want to post your dmesg output. I can have a look and we can go
through the problem together..I'll try to help even though I am not one of
those top notch FreeBSD guys..

-Wash

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