Date: 04 Feb 2004 09:15:28 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: William Segars <wcsegars@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 & 5.2 Message-ID: <44vfmnvslb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com>
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William Segars <wcsegars@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am having trouble with freebsd 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2.
> Neither of them recognizes my printer or floppy drive.
> I am a BSD novice and use KDE as a graphical
> interphase.
I'm guessing that your problems have more to do with KDE than with
FreeBSD per se; this is worth checking into so you can focus on the
most knowledgeable help available. [which is to say I don't know
much about KDE...]
> 1) I have a Canon BJC-210. I have downloaded and
> installed Cups, Aspfilter, asfilter, ghostscript etc
> and none of these recognizes my printer.
>
> I get this message on bootup
> ppc0: (parallel port) at port 0x378-0x37F irq 7 on ISA
> ppbus0: (parallel portbus) on ppc0
> 1pt0: (printer) on pp bus 0
> pp0: (parallel I/O) on ppbus 0
>
> However it doesn't seem to know my printer is there
> when I try to print.
Printing from the command line?
If you can print from the command line (e.g., "lpr /etc/rc.conf"),
then the printer is set up fine and your problem is getting your
applications to understand it. I don't have any problems with that,
but you may be trying something KDE specific.
> 2) I get this message at bootup
> fd0: (1440-kb 3.5 drive) on fdc drive 0
>
> However, I can't access the floppy drive. When I
> create an Icon and put the path /dev/fd/fd0. I can't
> access the floppy.
Again, if you can do it from the command line
("mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt/floppy" on 4.x), the OS is working
fine.
> 3) I use efax and have kdefax and tkfax as my
> frontend.
> My modem is configured in kde as cuaa0. Efax uses
> "modem" as a default. How can I change it to cuaa0.
> In the execution file at /usr/local/bin/fax - it has a
> line that says
> DEV=modem
> #DEV=cuaa1
> when I change it to #Dev=cuaa0 - it makes no
> difference.
> The only way I have found around this is to go to
> /dev/cuaa0 (using graphical interphase) - pull it out
> to my desktop and using link application. I change
> the name to "modem" and put it back (there is now both
> a cuaa0and modem in /dev. Then I'm able to send
> faxes. However, there is no way to save this
> configuration and when I turn off my computer it
> resets to the original settings
Sounds like a devfs issue on 5.x. I'm not using 5.x yet, but I think
there's a "devfs.conf" that can configure this for you.
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