From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 22:31:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE7837B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:31:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EFBA43E31 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 22:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from jud@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [63.214.206.218] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.9 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:31:18 -0600 Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 01:31:35 -0400 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Elementary Printing Help, Please Message-Id: <20020707013135.79c4df6f.jud@myrealbox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an HP 820Cse connected to my local machine as lpt0. It prints fine from Windows, so the hardware works. I have apsfilter installed and /etc/printcap set up to use the ppa driver that these particular HP machines must use. I have lpd_enable="YES" in my /etc/rc.conf file. I also uncommented the localhost line in /etc/hosts.equiv, just in case that might have any effect. However, I get no response at all from the printer whenever I try to print anything. For instance, if I try # lptest > /dev/lpt0 there is a momentary pause, then the root prompt comes up for the next line, but the printer just sits there. Same thing if I try # cat [$HOME]/test > /dev/lpt0 where test is the name I gave to the small Postscript test file set out in the Handbook. Here is the relevant portion of my kernel: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? port IO_LPT1 irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer I've also tried it without the "port IO_LPT1," but no difference. Here's the relevant bit of dmesg: ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: SCP,VLINK ppi0: on ppbus0 plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port The result of # dmesg | grep lpt0 is lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port repeated 3 times. Though I've been slogging away at FreeBSD for a while, this is the first time (obviously!) I've tried setting up a printer. If someone would take the trouble to tell me what elementary thing I haven't thought of, I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks, Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message