Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:01:16 -0700 From: "Michael O'Henly" <michael@tenzo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Jes=FAs=20Arn=E1iz?= <jesus@pasapues.com> Subject: Re: printer Message-ID: <01050111011603.95605@h24-69-46-74.gv.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <15086.16982.572860.727379@guru.mired.org> References: <15086.16982.572860.727379@guru.mired.org>
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I've been battling printer problems for the last few days and found that sometimes an earlier attempt to fix things would leave the printer in a confused state where it would claim to be busy. Just resetting the print queue and/or restarting the daemon was all it took to get past this (i.e., "lpc clean [printer]" / "lpc restart [printer]"). M. On Monday 30 April 2001 21:57, Mike Meyer wrote: > Jesús Arnáiz <jesus@pasapues.com> types: > > Hi! > > > > I have a parallel port printer pluged on my FreeBSD machine. When I boot > > I see it detect parallel port and lpt0 device. > > > > But I can't print, if I use lpd and lpq commands it say the device is > > busy and all my works are in the printer spool waiting for it. > > > > If I do a > > > > # cat /etc/lpt0 > > > > it say "device is busy" again. > > That looks like a printer cable problem, or possibly a BIOS > setting. Have you verifired that all the hardware works properly? > > <mike > > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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