From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 14:00:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D58716A41F for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:00:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C0743D48 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:00:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp224-174.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.224.174]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8PE0F91077276 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:30:21 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: stanley jobson Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:28:58 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1454309.FO3BKzdjDV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509252330.05256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:00:24 -0000 --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--