From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 09:54:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280D116A41F for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:54:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E6843D48 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:54:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp224-174.lns2.adl4.internode.on.net [203.122.224.174]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8P9sEGF075544 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:24:27 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:23:51 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <20050924163501.GA53285@neptune.atopia.net> <20050925095140.5bbb3162.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050925095140.5bbb3162.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1942008.c4mQz7t9S5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0.05 () FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dan Ponte , stanley jobson Subject: Re: lpt0 always busy X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 09:54:30 -0000 --nextPart1942008.c4mQz7t9S5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 25 September 2005 17:21, stanley jobson wrote: > > Usually, if you get "device busy," it means that the printer is simply > > not on or connected properly. Check your parallel cable. > > unfort. my printer is connected properly and it is on while simply > trying to open it with open(/dev/lpt0) - lptest > /dev/lpt0 fails too > ... > > so it seems that fbsd expects some kind of status reply from the printer > - correct? > > if so: how could i by-pass this? (cause my ugly gdi printer is probably > not able to answer correctly) i just wonna have access to my parallel > port ... It expects that your printer will toggle the BUSY line as it should.. I don't believe you'd be able to print on any OS if this was broken. Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1942008.c4mQz7t9S5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDNnOx5ZPcIHs/zowRAh5wAJ4vcBTocVRwJKzNPYXolDYZtC+b3ACgqMYf r7H3SkVJcIssydDnjTZ5FXE= =DLCy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1942008.c4mQz7t9S5--