Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:36:47 +0100 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: William Segars <wcsegars@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 & 5.2 Message-ID: <200402030936.47747.jorn@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com>
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You'll have the mount the floppy drive first by means of the mount command. Check out man mount for more details. To make things easier, you can edit your /etc/fstab file and add a floppy entry there (if it isn't already existing) here is an example: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 About your printer, I'm afraid I can't really help you with that. I never got my printer working either. Unix and printing still isn't as easy as it is with Bill's OS. Cheers, Jorn On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:48, William Segars wrote: > Gentleman and Ladies: > > I am having trouble with freebsd 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2. > Neither of them recognizes my printer or floppy drive. > I am a BSD novice and use KDE as a graphical > interphase. > > 1) I have a Canon BJC-210. I have downloaded and > installed Cups, Aspfilter, asfilter, ghostscript etc > and none of these recognizes my printer. > > I get this message on bootup > ppc0: (parallel port) at port 0x378-0x37F irq 7 on ISA > ppbus0: (parallel portbus) on ppc0 > 1pt0: (printer) on pp bus 0 > pp0: (parallel I/O) on ppbus 0 > > However it doesn't seem to know my printer is there > when I try to print. > > 2) I get this message at bootup > fd0: (1440-kb 3.5 drive) on fdc drive 0 > > However, I can't access the floppy drive. When I > create an Icon and put the path /dev/fd/fd0. I can't > access the floppy. > > 3) I use efax and have kdefax and tkfax as my > frontend. > My modem is configured in kde as cuaa0. Efax uses > "modem" as a default. How can I change it to cuaa0. > In the execution file at /usr/local/bin/fax - it has a > line that says > DEV=modem > #DEV=cuaa1 > when I change it to #Dev=cuaa0 - it makes no > difference. > The only way I have found around this is to go to > /dev/cuaa0 (using graphical interphase) - pull it out > to my desktop and using link application. I change > the name to "modem" and put it back (there is now both > a cuaa0and modem in /dev. Then I'm able to send > faxes. However, there is no way to save this > configuration and when I turn off my computer it > resets to the original settings > > I have been a Linux user for many years. The > port/packages system that BSD uses is far superior to > RPM's or any other linux systems (with the possible > exception of aptget for Debian which I have never > used). I'd like to keep Freebsd as my operating > system of choice but I need to get these problems > solved. > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > William Segars > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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