From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 6 21:17:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA15807 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA15778 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:17:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA11740; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:47:07 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980707134707.F7792@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 13:47:07 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Gary D. Margiotta" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP LaserJet Series II References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Gary D. Margiotta on Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 11:37:13PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 6 July 1998 at 23:37:13 -0400, Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > Anyone had any success setting one of these printers up under FreeBSD? > I'm having a little trouble getting output on it, and was wondering if > anyone had any tips on how to set it up. > > I know there is communication between my PC and the printer, as I can send > the lptest and the ready light starts blinking, but it takes honestly like > 5-10 minutes for anything to get spit out, and it ends up being some > garbage on the end of the page, nothing like what is supposed to be > printed; plus, it sends out a blank sheet or two after each attempt. I > tried going through the troubleshooting tips in the handbook, but to no > avail. > > Any ideas? Please reply directly as I'm not subscribed to the list. > Thanks in advance! This could be an interrupt conflict. Try this: # lptcontrol -p If it works after that, you have an interrupt conflict, so you should go looking at your dmesg output for conflicts (probably irq 7). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message