Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:35:26 +0200 From: Matthieu Bonavita <m.bonavita@free.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing : "lptcontrol : open : device busy" on IBM Proprinter II Message-ID: <20030602153526.07fde36e.m.bonavita@free.fr>
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I want to use my old IBM ProprinterII (BW 9 (or 24?) pin printer) on my FreeBSD, essentially to print long pages of program codes (gaining some ink for my un*x-badly supported Lexmark 2030 JetPrinter). I followed the handbook very carefully and properly (as always :) ) and at the dmesg , I get (I powered on my PC with the printer plugged) : ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/1 bytes threshold plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 At first sight, everything seems normal. But lptcontrol -* -d /dev/lpt0 always returns a : lptcontrol: open: Device busy lptest isnt working either. Cables are OK (checked) Printer is OK (checked and renewed yesterday, after 5 years of no-use). What am I missing ? ---- Matthieu Bonavita GPG Key : http://membres.lycos.fr/almacinnis/pubkey.asc Running on : FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p7 i386
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