Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:28:58 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy Message-ID: <200509252330.05256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
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--nextPart1454309.FO3BKzdjDV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 25 September 2005 23:03, stanley jobson wrote: > i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use the > printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ... Hmm, well it's possible the serial port is broken.. > > Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) > > i think so: lpd is not running and lsof | grep lpt doesnt show anything > either : ( fstat /dev/lpt0 and fstat /dev/lpt0.ctl ? > so i guess there could be a prob with the ready/status checking > procedure This consists of checking the BUSY pin on the port.. Parallel ports are (sans ECP/EPP extras) very very simple. Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? What do you see in dmesg? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1454309.FO3BKzdjDV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDNq1l5ZPcIHs/zowRAhtaAJ4zJUyqohge+IgkT8UN+dlZt0DXwgCdHXw4 3RuCSZW8Un/wOsGdGhz+dEY= =frKU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1454309.FO3BKzdjDV--
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