From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 27 14:59:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CD616A421 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 14:59:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ascherrer@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE90D13C468 for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 14:59:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ascherrer@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so686531uge for ; Sun, 27 May 2007 07:59:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=dMGfGFZMSKUhUBtkS/iPoutlfJIa4CLT1GNdea2CCJ+Cfv/tSMXbNYSBulMde5/pmDGwDfHwQjEBIvalTIMUtld6shy4wso84VsN1uVgKF+HB1aa7Bf1pmB5kzVY0xKRWFv4nCGVWlNUXSeSU/QTmNeUvP5YZ4H1UU5yUAXegbY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W3T0XHmZASY2thCB6o+CGD+PGVRTNu2DRwJz01ZLx7xDFY5JZhzmV8ltXpZVO2b+wsddLSl8yFxd6urT+J5yPaD8qLrNDUZTTVrXDxHd06hIktAozRHG8m/xSh2K8bMQeWKjVQnDECx58aMzRjAr5LIG0W6+ef3BTuVMSFgzNfE= Received: by 10.78.160.4 with SMTP id i4mr1433695hue.1180276221384; Sun, 27 May 2007 07:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.8? ( [217.162.108.233]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6sm12837nfv.2007.05.27.07.30.18; Sun, 27 May 2007 07:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <465995F5.8000603@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:30:13 +0200 From: andreas scherrer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: CUPS on 6.2-RELEASE-p3: USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:59:30 -0000 Hello FreeBSD-Questions-people! I am trying to get a Samsung ML5000a printer to work on my FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 box. The Machine has a EPIA Mini-ITX board which has *no* parallel port. The printer only connects through a parallel port though. So I use a cable that should be able to help me connect the parallel port of the printer to a usb port on the EIPA Mini-ITX board. The cable (USB-PTR) was manufactered by Maxxtro. I am still in the early stage of setup, meaning that I even cannot print the testpage from the CUPS webinterface. I get the "USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds..." message and nothing happens on the printer. The printer is connected to /dev/unlpt0 crw-rw---- 1 root cups 0, 61 May 26 17:18 /dev/unlpt0 /var/cache/cups is writable by the cups group: drwxrwxr-x 2 root cups 512 Apr 3 21:43 cups I managed to get half a testpage out once (I don't know how/why?!?), so I assume the cable would be working in theory. If I issue 'echo test > /dev/unlpt0' I get bash: /dev/unlpt0: Device busy Even if cupsd is not running anymore. Unfortunately, I could not find a solution that worked for me using either Google or the FreeBSD mailinglist archives. There are lots of threads describing the same or a very similar problem, but none provided a solution for me. If anybody could give me a hint, I would greately appreciate it. If more information is needed, I will of course gladly provide it. Kind regards andreas