From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 06:15:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D0616A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 06:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2365243D58 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 06:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004020414152801200d7gfue>; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:15:28 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 938D611; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:15:28 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: William Segars References: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Feb 2004 09:15:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040203034804.64935.qmail@web21203.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44vfmnvslb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 63 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: Ronald Taylor cc: Ronald Taylor cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 & 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:15:32 -0000 William Segars writes: > 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. I'm guessing that your problems have more to do with KDE than with FreeBSD per se; this is worth checking into so you can focus on the most knowledgeable help available. [which is to say I don't know much about KDE...] > 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. Printing from the command line? If you can print from the command line (e.g., "lpr /etc/rc.conf"), then the printer is set up fine and your problem is getting your applications to understand it. I don't have any problems with that, but you may be trying something KDE specific. > 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. Again, if you can do it from the command line ("mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt/floppy" on 4.x), the OS is working fine. > 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 Sounds like a devfs issue on 5.x. I'm not using 5.x yet, but I think there's a "devfs.conf" that can configure this for you.