From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:20:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1193C37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851CE43E3B for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:20:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdagee@owt.com) Received: from enterprise.workgroup (pm8-s2.owt.com [208.8.78.195]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17137; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:20:51 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Karl Agee Reply-To: kdagee@owt.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: printing problems 4.7-stable Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:20:32 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] Cc: Kent Stewart MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210212220.32976.kdagee@owt.com> 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 cannot print in 4.7-stable...I do not think the problem is the driver b= ut=20 with how the kernel deals the parallel port. Which is odd, since it=20 recognizes and configures it properly. =20 Why I say this, is because I cannot even send=20 # lptest > /dev/lpt0 to the printer, as nothing happens. =20 The printer is a winprinter boat anchor, which works well in linux using = the=20 same drivers (and on the same box). It is a HP820Cse using the pnm2ppa=20 filter package setup via apsfilter. =20 When I attempt to print I get an error message back=20 pnm2ppa[405]: parm_iversion(): Unknown Printer version I've written the authors of the package and they made sure I had the righ= t=20 printer selected which I do..... I've re-set the parallel port mode in the bios to=20 spp...epp...ecp+epp....nothing works so far. =20 Here's what dmesg says about it.... ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: SCP,VLINK lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 There has been some traffic on the past on this, but no resolution... I'm sure it will_work just dont know what is going on at this point. =20 --karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message