From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 07:09:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA11009 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 07:09:50 -0700 Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA11003 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 07:09:46 -0700 Received: from server.cs.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa02274; 9 Jun 95 10:09 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU) by uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (4.1/5.1.UVA) id AA15033; Fri, 9 Jun 95 10:09:41 EDT Posted-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 10:09:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA10273; Fri, 9 Jun 95 10:09:37 EDT Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 10:09:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Jan E Backlund Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Troubles with lpt0 [third post] In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Jan E Backlund wrote: > If I enter the command 'cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lpt0', I get the response > "device busy". Same thing after I kill the lpd daemon. I recompiled the > kernel after removing all of the extraneous device drivers, and still get > the same "device busy" message. The same hardware works fine under Linux > and DOS. I am not so sure I see what the problem is. I just tried this on my machine running 2.0.5-ALPHA and get the same results for your 'test', yet have no problems printing with lpr. Unfortunately, I was far too far away to turn on the printer, an lj4m. Are you saying that lpt0 acts as if you printer is off-line all the time? cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| info at ftp.uu.net:/doc/lpf, print Programming Freedom ->| "join.ps.Z" for an application