Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 12:24:13 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew <hlew@sequence.Stanford.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: weird lpt problems Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961112121023.7766A-100000@vegemite.Stanford.EDU>
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System is using the 2.1.5R kernel
1) lpq always says "waiting for laser to become ready (offline ?)"
2) Even if I kill lpd and do a "cat file > /dev/lpt0" I get:
"/dev/lpt0: Device busy." when the laser is idle.
3) Just to be sure it is a not a cable problem, I can bootup in Win95 and
print without any problems in DOS or Windows 95.
4) I have tried playing around with the SPP/ECP/EPP settings and even
changing the parallel port addresses and irqs, but none of the changes help.
5) I have tried setting the lpt flag to 0xff from 0x0 and it does not
help. Does anyone know what the flag settings mean?
I can not get the "lptest > /dev/lpt0" to work without the same
"/dev/lpt0: Device busy." message. I wonder why it keeps saying that
/dev/lpt0 is busy when no device is using it.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is truly the weirdest problem I have
ever faced because the darn printer will print if I bootup in Win95.
Thanks in advance for any help, suggestions, or any input at all.
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Here's the /etc/printcap:
# @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
laser|epson|lp|Epson Laser Printer:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/logfile:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/acct:\
:mx#0:sf:
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