From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 21:58: 1 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 25EFA37B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:57:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 60916 invoked by uid 100); 1 May 2001 04:57:58 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <15086.16982.572860.727379@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:57:58 -0500 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jes=FAs_Arn=E1iz?= Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer In-Reply-To: <118588891@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 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 Jes=FAs Arn=E1iz types: > Hi! >=20 > I have a parallel port printer pluged on my FreeBSD machine. When I b= oot I see it > detect parallel port and lpt0 device. >=20 > But I can't print, if I use lpd and lpq commands it say the device is= busy and all my > works are in the printer spool waiting for it. >=20 > If I do a >=20 > # cat /etc/lpt0 >=20 > it say "device is busy" again. That looks like a printer cable problem, or possibly a BIOS setting. Have you verifired that all the hardware works properly? =09=09=09=09http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more inform= ation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message