Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:20:38 -0800 From: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: printer problem Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000314201950.009517d0@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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Hello,
As one of processes of moving from Window to FreeBSD, I started to work on
printer now. I have Panasonic KX-P6500 laser printer and on first try of
"lptest > /dev/lpt0", it printed one line of ASCII chracters on first page
and two blank page. And I thought, "hmm, that's odd. Let me try to set up
printcap and see what happen." So I edited printcap like this :
##########################
lp|panasonic|local Panasonic KX-P6500:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/lpfilter:
##########################
And "lptest > /dev/lpt0" gives me 3 blank pages. I tried spooler but all
jobs sit at the queue. I tried polled mode with "lptcontrol -p" but
nothing changed.
That was yesterday and today after reading handbook, I added following to
my kernel :
###########################
device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
###########################
That gave me error saying there is no driver for lptdriver. After reading
LINT I changed it to :
###########################
device olpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
###########################
And that still gave error -- (no olptdriver). So I decided to go back to
do ppbus way so I changed back to the way it was :
###########################
# Parallel port
device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7
controller ppbus0 # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt0 at ppbus? # Printer
###########################
And now, I don't even get lpt0 from dmesg !!! "lptest > /dev/lpt0" tell me
that lpt0 is not configured. I see lpt0 lpt1 lpt2 and lpt3 at
/dev. Following is my dmesg
###########################
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppb0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <Panasonic KX-P6500> PRINTER GDI
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
###########################
As you can see, it doesn't see lpt0 anymore.
What did I do wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Joe
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