Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:05:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Mahlon Smith <reich@internetcds.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/lpt0 busy Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005300951340.70622-100000@martini.office.cdsnet.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I've searched through the mailing list archives to no avail. It seems
that a few others were having the same problem, but I was unable to locate
a solution that addresses my problem.
I am unable to print. Jobs are spooled successfully, but they just sit
there. lpd thinks the printer is offline. (Apple Laserwriter 360.)
The printer and cable work perfectly from windows and macintosh.
Tried changing the port to polled vs. interrupt, can't do it since the
device is busy.
I am out of ideas.
Relevant info below, help, as always, is appreciated.
-Mahlon
-------------------------------------------------------------------
dmesg stuff:
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lpc> status all
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
2 entries in spool area
waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)
router# cat > /dev/lpt0
/dev/lpt0: Device busy.
router# lptcontrol -p
lptcontrol: open: Device busy
router# pwd
/var/spool/output
router# ls -lR
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root daemon 512 May 5 1997 lpd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 5 May 30 01:18 lpd.lock
./lpd:
total 7
-rw-r----x 1 root daemon 4 May 5 1997 .seq
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 110 May 5 1997 cfA000router.[hostname]
-rw-rw---- 1 daemon daemon 110 May 5 1997 cfA001router.[hostname]
-rw-rw---- 1 root daemon 15 May 5 1997 dfA000router.[hostname]
-rw-rw---- 1 root daemon 553 May 5 1997 dfA001router.[hostname]
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 5 May 30 01:18 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root daemon 42 May 30 01:18 status
router# ps aux | grep lpd
root 2180 0.0 0.2 264 144 p0 R+ 10:00AM 0:00.00 grep lpd
root 1771 0.0 1.1 888 664 ?? Is 1:18AM 0:00.01 lpd
root 1772 0.0 1.1 888 676 ?? S 1:18AM 0:00.35 lpd
--
Mahlon Smith
InternetCDS
http://www.internetcds.com
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0005300951340.70622-100000>