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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2005 23:28:58 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        stanley jobson <stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lpt0 always busy
Message-ID:  <200509252330.05256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
References:  <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509251923.53947.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050925153304.4edf87cb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>

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On Sunday 25 September 2005 23:03, stanley jobson wrote:
> i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use the
> printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ...

Hmm, well it's possible the serial port is broken..

> > Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc)
>
> i think so: lpd is not running and lsof | grep lpt doesnt show anything
> either : (

fstat /dev/lpt0
and
fstat /dev/lpt0.ctl

?

> so i guess there could be a prob with the ready/status checking
> procedure

This consists of checking the BUSY pin on the port..
Parallel ports are (sans ECP/EPP extras) very very simple.

Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode?
What do you see in dmesg?

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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