Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 17:59:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jan E Backlund <back0003@gold.tc.umn.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Printer woes Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505111734.A4507-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu>
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I have an HP Laserjet III connected to the parrallel port of a generic 486 pc running FreeBSD-04-12-95-SNAP. The printer works fine from dos or linux, but not yet from FreeBSD. If I try to access the port directly through 'cat foo > /dev/lpt0' I get a system message that the device is busy. I ran 'MAKEDEVICE lpt0' and got the same thing. dmesg tells me: lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa Originally it was set up as a polling device. I use lptcontrol to change it to an interrupt driven device, again to no avail. Any clues on how to trouble-shoot this problem would be greatly appreciated. Jan Erik back0003@gold.tc.umn.edu
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