From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 21:37:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babe.nextra.sk (babe.nextra.sk [195.168.1.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B6037B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:37:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by babe.nextra.sk (8.11.5/8.11.3) id f9U5bYL46655 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:37:34 GMT (envelope-from ico66@nextra.sk) X-Authentication-Warning: babe.nextra.sk: nobody set sender to ico66@nextra.sk using -f To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: filter for HP LJ 6l Message-ID: <1004420254.3bde3c9e7a155@webmail1.nextra.sk> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:37:34 +0000 (GMT) From: ico66@nextra.sk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.6 X-Originating-IP: 195.168.62.142 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 I need to print and i need it desperately ;-). Until now I never cared about how to set up printer, Linux used to have some GUI tools for this. But now i'm in FreeBSD4.3 and looking for help. Already read handbook and 'Corporate Networkers Guide', but... it's about ps printers or line printers. What's already done: *in MYKERNEL is: ---snip--- # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer #device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device #device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr ---/snip--- -last line is commented, config says there is an error, but it's pasted from handbook(so i'm in polled mode now and i even don't know, what does it mean ;-) *printer is working on lpt0 ( lptest | lpr ) */etc/rc.conf contains lpd_enable="YES" *simple text if in /etc/printcap Dmesg says: ---snip--- ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: PRINTER HP ENHANCED PCL5,PJL lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Polled port ppi0: on ppbus0 ----/snip--- What i'm looking for is printing mainly *.pdf, *.ps files. In "gv" doc i can't find my "sDEVICE". If somebody is using this kind of printer, i'd like to see his /etc/printcap, please. Few questions: what's difference between interrupt-driven mode and polled mode? Why running: # lptcontrol -i or # lptcontrol -p says: lptcontrol: ioctl: Operation not supported -- ico ico66@nextra.sk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message