From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 11:40:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3938837B402 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2256BD04; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA17892; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:40:03 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0LJhNu01358; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Franzen, Jon" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Printer problem - Canon BJC-1000 - FreeBSD 4.4 References: From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 21 Jan 2002 11:43:23 -0800 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Franzen, Jon" writes: > I'm a new user, I can't get "lptest > /dev/lpt0" or any of the other > functionality to work with my BJC-1000 printer. Absolutely nothing happens. > I think I've followed all the instructions found in many sources. > > Is any one else having this problem. I'd generally suggest installing a port of apsfilter or pdq or cups (which should require ghostscript, etc.), but you're problem seems deeper. I don't know BJC-1000, but my BJC-4300 and probably every other printer should respond with at least one line of text given the above command. Have you deleted too much from your kernel config file before rebuilding it? Does something in /boot/kernel.conf disable the driver? Do your bootup messages show anything like this? ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f on isa0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/15 bytes threshold lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Polled port ppi0: on ppbus0 ppc1: at port 0x278-0x27f on isa0 ppc1: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus1: IEEE1284 device found /PS2/ECP/EPP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus1: ppbus1: lpt1: on ppbus1 lpt1: Polled port ppi1: on ppbus1 My kernel config has (there are other schemes, I think): device ppc0 at isa? port IO_LPT1 device ppc1 at isa? port IO_LPT2 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device ppi # Parallel port interface device device lpt # Printers (I have two, lpt0 & lpt1) # [probably should wire down] And finally, check the cables and power. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message