Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:35:48 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Peter Shpak <s_ain_t@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE + HP DeskJet 820cxi problem Message-ID: <20010214093548.D8539@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <20010213231621.7913.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>; from s_ain_t@yahoo.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:16:21PM -0800 References: <20010213153432.B2398@billygoat.slb.to> <20010213231621.7913.qmail@web122.yahoomail.com>
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> > > i have an HP DeskJet 820Cxi (a win printer) and i am running 4.2 > > > Stable. I have configured apsfilter, but it does not print the > > > test page. the printer is recognized during bootup. dmesg > > > points out that it is connected on ppbus0. But sending text > > > files to /dev/ppbus0 results in nothing. > > > > You normally want to use /dev/lpt0, not /dev/ppbus0. In fact, > > there's (normally) no such node as /dev/ppbus0; you've probably > > just been creating a file called /dev/ppbus0. > > you the problem is that the printer does nothing no matter where i > send the file. saying > > cp blah.txt > /dev/lpt0 > > does nothing.. sorry i forgot to mention that. it does not print in > BSD no matter what. but it does in winXX.. any other > suggestions??? Try `cat blahblah.txt >/dev/lpt0', not `cp'. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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