From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 0:29: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C68337B73C for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 00:29:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57340 invoked by uid 100); 20 Mar 2001 08:29:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15031.5329.574065.60701@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:29:05 -0600 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About USB Printers In-Reply-To: <30930034@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Odhiambo Washington types: > --qlTNgmc+xy1dBmNv > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi > I am having a little frustration with my USB ports. > I have attached my HP DeskJet 895C to my FreeBSd box and it is detected. I'= > ve configured printcap with ulpt0 but whenever I send > a print job, I see it briefly in the queue and then it just as suddenly dis= > aapears. Nothing gets to the print device. > Does anyone have any clues as to why? That sounds like you don't have the lpt system configured properly for whatever you're trying to print. Are you trying to print straight text (and does the 895C handle that), or have you installed something like magicfilter which deals with printing other things? http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message