From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 8 23:42:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23107 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:42:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ds9.dreamhaven.org (dt091n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.47.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA23102 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:42:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from data@dreamhaven.net) Received: (qmail 18964 invoked by uid 1010); 9 Nov 1998 07:42:25 -0000 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:42:25 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Newall X-Sender: data@ds9.dreamhaven.org Reply-To: Bryce Newall To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: APS Filter/JetDirect troubles... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If it ain't one thing, it's another. First of all, thanks to everyone (particularly Norman Rice) who helped me get APS Filter compiled and working. Well... compiled, anyway... working is still another story. The printer works just fine if it's hooked up directly to my FreeBSD machine's parallel port. However, to throw a wrench in the works a bit, I hooked up an HP JetDirect EX Plus on my internal network and assigned it an IP address. I can print from both of my NT boxes with no problem, and before upgrading to the latest version of APS Filter, I could print to it from the FreeBSD machine as well. The reason I upgraded was so that it would support my new (well, new to me) HP DeskJet 870. I had an old HP DeskJet 520 black & white before. To make my print jobs go to the JetDirect box, I made one simple change to the /etc/printcap that APS Filter's installation generated... the same change I made previous to upgrading, which was to change this line in each printer definition: :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ to: :rm=10.0.0.5:\ Where 10.0.0.5 is the IP address of my JetDirect box. APS Filter created 5 printer definitions: ASCII mono, Auto mono, ASCII color, Auto color, and Raw. If I send a print job to "raw", it comes out, although it loses any formatting. If I print to any of the others, I see the JetDirect activity light blink a few times, and then I get this mailed to me: Date: 9 Nov 1998 07:39:24 -0000 From: root@dreamhaven.net Reply-To: root@ds9.dreamhaven.org To: root@ds9.dreamhaven.org Subject: lp printer job "" Your printer job could not be printed Upon checking my log files, I noticed this for each time I'd try to print: Nov 8 23:39:19 ds9 lpd[18586]: restarting lp Nov 8 23:39:23 ds9 last message repeated 3 times Nov 8 23:39:24 ds9 lpd[18586]: lp: job could not be sent to remote host (cfA011ds9.dreamhaven.org) Nov 8 23:39:24 ds9 lpd[18586]: mail sent to user root about job on printer lp (FATALERR) I've no idea what to check. lpr doesn't seem to have any sort of "debug" option, so I can't figure out where it's barfing. By the way, with the previous version of APS Filter, everything worked fine; I was just printing to my 870C with APS Filter thinking it was a 500. I believe the problem lies somewhere with the communication between lpd and the JetDirect, since a direct hookup works fine. If anyone has any suggestions on what to check, I'd be most grateful, as I am quite mystified at the moment. Thanks in advance! ********************************************************************** * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.net * * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.net/~data * * "Insanity takes its toll. Please have exact change." * ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message