From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 16 14:16:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA4D37B43E for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3GLGBH36190; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:16:11 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 09:16:11 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Michael O'Henly" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem setting up printer... Message-ID: <20010417091611.D34379@itouchnz.itouch> References: <01041418025500.00678@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01041418025500.00678@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net>; from michael@tenzo.com on Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:02:55PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:02:55PM -0700, Michael O'Henly wrote: > I'm trying to troubleshoot the difficulty I'm having setting up printing > under FreeBSD 4.2. > > An answer to this question would save me a lot of grief. ;-) > > I have a native Postscript printer (HP 4050) and I've created a simple > Postscript test file using an example from the Handbook. > > The question is: if I'm able to print successfully this way... > > cat printerTest.ps > /dev/lpt0 > > ...does this rule out misconfiguration of the kernel? Yes, although the better way to check would be "dmesg | grep lpt" -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message