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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 06:17:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Printing problem
Message-ID:  <20020328141729.71752.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com>

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I'm trying to set up my printer (lpd) but I'm a bit
confused. The handbook says 
to use  

dmesg | grep lpt

to see if the kernel has lpt support. Instead of
getting

lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa

I get 

lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port

Is this correct? Also, when I try to set the
communications mode I get

lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0
lptcontrol: open: Device busy

The handbook also says to place "lptcontrol -p -u N"
in /etc/rc.local but there'
s two problems: the "-u" option is not supported  and
the file /etc/rc.local doesn't exsist. I know there's
a place to store user rc type code so that I could run
lptcontrol on startup, but I forgot where that was.
Any hints?
FreeBSD 4.5



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