From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 10 5:19:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D1E14EB9 for ; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 05:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.40]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA3D5B; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:17:08 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA31150; Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:17:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990410080434.A4773@rknebel.uplink.net> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:17:16 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Rick Knebel Subject: RE: printer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 10-Apr-99 Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > > On bootup I get this line > > ppbus0: PCL,MLC,PML > > Does this mean that freebsd has a driver for my printer. > Right now i use apsfilter to print. Nope, stick to apsfilter. ppbus merely detects what the printer supports. > Can this ppbus be used to print somehow? Ye already use it to print. ppbus and (n)lpt0 are used to print, that's what apsfilter and the lp* commands do. ppbus is merely the lower layer stuff and apsfilter is the formatter so to speak. HTH, --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message