From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 14:26:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25154 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:26:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt091n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.47.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA25149 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 12575 invoked by uid 1010); 16 Nov 1998 22:25:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:25:48 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: Aaron Parmelee cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: set up printing In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981116131203.008f8360@net66.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Aaron Parmelee wrote: > another group member informed me of what i feared. my printer, like my > modem, requires windows drivers. a winprinter. i looked at the box it came > in, and it even touts itself as designed for windows. hooray for hollywood. So it won't just accept raw input, eh? Has to come from a special driver? How lame. :/ > all is not lost. i'm going to pick up a cheap black and white printer and > slip it into LPT2. Ok, sounds good. Just remember, in FreeBSD, LPT2 is /dev/lpt1. :) ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message