From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 16:53:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFC437B400 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 16:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g4DNrPeS100944; Mon, 13 May 2002 19:53:25 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 19:53:23 -0400 To: joshualokken@attbi.com, FBSD Questions From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Printer setup, DeskJet 820Cse Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 2:25 PM -0700 5/13/02, inspector.us@omicnet.com wrote: >Hello > >In reference to a DeskJet 820Cse on FBSD 4.5R: > >/etc/printcap is set up for lp. I used the if-simple script >from the handbook. I have read the chapter on printing (hdbk), >and the man pages for lpc, lpr, lptest. > >dmesg shows that FreeBSD sees and recognizes lpt0 on ppbus0. > >lpc status all tells me printing is enabled, spooling enabled, >printer idle. > >Still, I receive no output from either lptest or sending a text >file to the spooler. What am I missing? In what way are you using lptest? If lptest > /dev/lpt0 does not work, then there isn't much reason to believe that anything else will work. I do a lot of the work with lpr, lpc & friends on freebsd, but I do not know much about locally-connected printers. (all I work with are network-connected printers) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message