From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 14:19:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ECB837B43F for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:19:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f3HLIPW07465; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:18:25 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:18:24 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: Dan Nelson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARGH! Stupid LPD error... Message-ID: <20010418091824.B4712@itouchnz.itouch> References: <20010417160730.A20235@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scanner@jurai.net on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:13:36PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:13:36PM -0400, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > > > Is the printer offline maybe? Try running "lptcontrol -p" to set the > > printer device to polled mode. That has helped for me in the past. > > GRRR. open-systems# lptcontrol -p > lptcontrol: open: Device busy Um. Make sure the cables and connections are seated firmly? The printer should be holding one of the pins down to indicate online mode, otherwise /dev/lpt0 will report device dead/offline; ie exactly what you're seeing. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- char *p="char *p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message