From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 15 18:44:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13330 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:44:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from MAINE.maine.edu (SMTP3@maine.maine.edu [130.111.39.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA13325 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 18:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Joann_Eaton@umit.maine.edu) Received: from voyager(130.111.71.9) by MAINE.maine.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 15 Dec 97 21:43:44 EST From: Joann_Eaton@umit.maine.edu (Joann Eaton) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 21:38:43 -0500 Subject: Printer Question. Message-ID: Organization: University of Maine MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: X-Gateway: NASTA Gate 2.0 beta 3 for FirstClass(R) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have issued this command to test if the kernel supports my || port. diphth > dmesg grep lpt1 lpt1 at 0x378-0x37f I then attempted to set the communication mode for the port via 'lptcontrol' to set the interrupt-driven mode for lpt1. lptcontrol -i -u 1 it claims the device isn't configured When I attempted the printer test (plain old ASCII) lptest > /dev/lpt1 the printer makes a noise as if it's about to begin then stops suddenly. when I issue the command again the device comes up busy. I'm not asking for ready made solutions, I need some fundamental understanding of what is happening here.