Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:29:37 -0500 (EST) From: Willow <willow@tds.edu> To: Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: APS Filter/JetDirect troubles... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811090326570.9458-100000@zeus.tds.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.981108233221.15750r-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
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I have a JetDirect card installed in a HP LJ 4+ and use the following
printcap, also I am able to print from our NT, WIN95/98, and Macintosh
boxes without issue as well as all of the unix hosts on the network:
The first entry I use for text, and the second I use for anything graphics
related (postscript, web pages, etc) I assigned a name to the ip address
used by the jetdirect card.
lp|tlaser|HP LaserJet 4M+ TEXT:rm=hplaser:rp=text:rs:sh:mx#0:\
:af=/var/account/acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/tlaser:
plaser|HP LaserJet 4M+ PS:rm=hplaser:rp=raw:rs:sh:mx#0:\
:af=/var/account/acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/plaser:
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willow@tds.edu
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On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Bryce Newall wrote:
> If it ain't one thing, it's another.
>
> First of all, thanks to everyone (particularly Norman Rice) who helped me
> get APS Filter compiled and working. Well... compiled, anyway... working
> is still another story.
>
> The printer works just fine if it's hooked up directly to my FreeBSD
> machine's parallel port. However, to throw a wrench in the works a bit, I
> hooked up an HP JetDirect EX Plus on my internal network and assigned it
> an IP address. I can print from both of my NT boxes with no problem, and
> before upgrading to the latest version of APS Filter, I could print to it
> from the FreeBSD machine as well. The reason I upgraded was so that it
> would support my new (well, new to me) HP DeskJet 870. I had an old HP
> DeskJet 520 black & white before. To make my print jobs go to the
> JetDirect box, I made one simple change to the /etc/printcap that APS
> Filter's installation generated... the same change I made previous to
> upgrading, which was to change this line in each printer definition:
>
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>
> to:
>
> :rm=10.0.0.5:\
>
> Where 10.0.0.5 is the IP address of my JetDirect box. APS Filter created
> 5 printer definitions: ASCII mono, Auto mono, ASCII color, Auto color,
> and Raw. If I send a print job to "raw", it comes out, although it loses
> any formatting. If I print to any of the others, I see the JetDirect
> activity light blink a few times, and then I get this mailed to me:
>
> Date: 9 Nov 1998 07:39:24 -0000
> From: root@dreamhaven.net
> Reply-To: root@ds9.dreamhaven.org
> To: root@ds9.dreamhaven.org
> Subject: lp printer job "<unknown>"
>
> Your printer job
> could not be printed
>
> Upon checking my log files, I noticed this for each time I'd try to print:
>
> Nov 8 23:39:19 ds9 lpd[18586]: restarting lp
> Nov 8 23:39:23 ds9 last message repeated 3 times
> Nov 8 23:39:24 ds9 lpd[18586]: lp: job could not be sent to remote host
> (cfA011ds9.dreamhaven.org)
> Nov 8 23:39:24 ds9 lpd[18586]: mail sent to user root about job <unknown>
> on printer lp (FATALERR)
>
> I've no idea what to check. lpr doesn't seem to have any sort of "debug"
> option, so I can't figure out where it's barfing. By the way, with the
> previous version of APS Filter, everything worked fine; I was just
> printing to my 870C with APS Filter thinking it was a 500. I believe the
> problem lies somewhere with the communication between lpd and the
> JetDirect, since a direct hookup works fine. If anyone has any
> suggestions on what to check, I'd be most grateful, as I am quite
> mystified at the moment.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> **********************************************************************
> * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net *
> * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data *
> * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." *
> **********************************************************************
>
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