From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 15:59:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA18196 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:59:55 -0700 Received: from gold.tc.umn.edu (root@gold.tc.umn.edu [128.101.115.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA18190 for ; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:59:54 -0700 Received: by gold.tc.umn.edu; Thu, 11 May 95 17:59:46 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 17:59:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jan E Backlund Subject: Printer woes To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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