From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 30 15:24:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21309 for current-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:24:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21271 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26524; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:23:59 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15333; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:23:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA04564; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:58:52 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603302158.WAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: HP printers To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 22:58:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: ccappuc@satelnet.org (Chris Cappuccio) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603291843.NAA02951@sefl.satelnet.org> from "Chris Cappuccio" at Mar 29, 96 01:43:50 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Chris Cappuccio wrote: > I need a little help getting a hewlett packard deskjet 500 > printer working under -current (nothing to do with the fact > that it's current or 2.1 or whatever, just that its kind of > strange..) I can't get he baud rate adn such set correctly Baud rate??? Is the printer connected via a serial port? If it's parallel, and all your problem is that it's terribly slow, try setting your printer port into ``polled'' mode: lptcontrol -p Some newer HP printers are told to not work correctly in interrupt mode, apparently due to some (not yet exactly understood) timing problem. Slowaris is also affected by this (and that's probably the reason why the HP support does rather act like an ``unsupport'' here). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)