Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 06:55:42 +0000 From: "George Genovezos" <ggenovez@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer Message-ID: <F136eolj8Jecd92bXCH00000c28@hotmail.com>
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Ok. I'm getting ready to throught this printer out the window. & no you cant wait outside. I want to see it splat ;) Here is the skinny on thir prob. Freebsd 4.3 stable Lexmark z22 cat /etc/printcap lp | lexmark | Lexmark Printer: :lp=/dev/lpt0: :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: cd /var/spool localhost# ls -l total 13 drwx------ 2 1002 1002 512 Jul 29 13:51 jabber drwxrwxr-x 2 uucp dialer 512 Apr 21 09:02 lock drwxr-xr-x 2 daemon daemon 512 Aug 5 02:15 lp drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 512 Apr 21 09:02 lpd drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 512 Aug 4 21:16 lpd-errs drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 512 Aug 4 21:16 lpd.lexmark drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 Aug 5 01:00 mqueue drwx------ 2 root daemon 512 Apr 21 09:02 opielocks drwxr-xr-x 3 root daemon 512 Aug 4 21:23 output drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Jul 29 04:26 samba drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jul 29 13:29 sendfile drwxrwxr-x 7 uucp uucp 512 Apr 21 09:02 uucp drwxrwxrwx 2 uucp uucp 512 Apr 21 09:02 uucppublic dmesg: Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: <Lexmark Lexmark Z22-Z32> LNPAP plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 ps -ax | grep lpd 270 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/lpd 780 p1 I+ 0:00.01 tail -f /var/log/lpd-errs 1351 p2 RV 0:00.00 grep lpd (csh) lpc restart lp unknown printer lp localhost# lpc restart lexmark unknown printer lexmark Any hints or do I watch the printer go splat? Thx _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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