From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 3 23:49: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jason04.u.washington.edu (jason04.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 083FD14CF0 for ; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:49:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason04.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id XAA50560; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:47:04 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id XAA04565; Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:47:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 23:46:15 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu Cc: Morgan Davis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing snafu in 3.1 may lead to my death In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: >> # Parallel port >> device ppc0 at isa? port? net irq 7 >Try changing net to tty, this seems to work (better). In my case, printing >worked but was often not working properly. So far, since making that >change I have not had the problem. From what I hear, some people can't >get it to work period otherwise. YMMV. I also can confirm this. I had zero response from my printer with the "net" switch set. "tty" fixed it. Catchya Later, | Give me UNIX or give me a typewriter. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message