From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 28 5:51:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBA9637B479 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 05:51:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.22.163.2] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13pVQh-0001ss-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:49:47 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13pVTi-0000CT-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:52:54 +0300 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:52:54 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington 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> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <99.bc57485.272b76a8@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <99.bc57485.272b76a8@aol.com>; from "Plethora86@aol.com" on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 08:24:08PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * 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 -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. It is not length of life, but depth of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message