Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:52:36 -0800 From: "Lin Jianfong" <ljfong@hotmail.com> To: xxavi@myrealbox.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: configure the printer Message-ID: <F72eYNWABBCPunmbRPM000146ae@hotmail.com>
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The way the instructions were written in the handbook was catered as much as possible to be general purpose. It merely suggested that if you can see "lpt0" by doing dmesg -a | grep lpt0, that means, the kernel has already acknowledged the presence of your LPT1 (first printer port) and you can send data directly to /dev/lpt0 as root already if you got the printer hooked up and powered up to your first parallel communication port. There's nothing wrong with your output at all as far as I can see, your parallel port is simply set to work in "interrupt driven mode" instead of "polled mode", for explanations on this, the handbook explained it better than I could. Next step might be to install filter and modify /etc/printcap so you could do general printing task as user. Again, the handbook explained this in detail IMO. Fong >From: xxavi@myrealbox.com >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: configure the printer >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:43:30 +0100 (CET) > > >Good, in this page, >http://www.es.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setu >p.html, > >in the section, 11.3.1.2.1 Kernel Configuration, > >it say: 'lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa' > >but my output is: > >[root@x]/root(101): dmesg | grep lpt0 >lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 >lpt0: Interrupt-driven port >[root@x]/root(102): > >1.- why my exit differs from the exit of the example of the web page? >2.- is correct my exit? >3.- if it is not it as I can solve it? > >thanks, good bye > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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