From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 17:40:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA05347 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod.tera.com (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA05342 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA05777 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:40:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA05103 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608050040.RAA05103@athena.tera.com> Subject: lpt0:: "Device busy" To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 17:40:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After 8 or 9 months, I finally decided to take serious steps in getting my DeskJet running under FBSD. I checked the line connection and made sure that the printer is plugged into LPT1 on my box; then check my i386/conf/TAO file. And yup, everything looks kosher. lpt0 is on irq7, etc. I did the ``lptcontrol -i -u 0'' bit as mentioned in the docs. Made sure that the printer was on and functional. It is. Then I did the # lptest > /dev/lpt0 and get back the "Device busy" message. Before I risk life and limb or other injury triple checking hardware connections, can anyone suggest possible snafus? I just bought an extention cable to hook up the printer. It is likely that something somewhere is loose? or in the problem more or less arcane? Thanks! gary PS: This time I did check dejanews and found that this question was recently posed: nothing back yet... <><> The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.