From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 10:03:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA15769 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pike.cdrom.com (pike.cdrom.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15732 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (support@localhost) by pike.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA24401 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from support@cdrom.com) X-Received: from out1.ibm.net (out1.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by pike.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA19385 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rff01@ibm.net) X-Received: from default (slip166-72-236-85.ca.us.ibm.net [166.72.236.85]) by out1.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA49452 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 14:08:31 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980615070852.00687b48@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net> X-Sender: usinet.rff01@pop03.ca.us.ibm.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 07:08:52 -0700 To: support@cdrom.com From: Robert Franklin Subject: FreeBsd Printer Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I bought FreeBsd 2.2.6 from you folks and am having a bit of trouble getting the printer to work. The basic hardware is ok as it works under both W95 and os/2 warp 4. I've read the online handbook and the setup goes fine, it even makes sense (more below), but I get no little squiggles on the page. The hardware is a generic pentium mboard, 233 mhz, 64 megs, BIG disks, 2 ser, 1 parallel, this hooked to an HP laserjet IIIP. So, lp daemon starts up, ps aux | lpr (through your suggested little laserjet filter) produces job control and output queue files which I can see and read, the printer starts whrring, and a blank page comes out. The output file in the queue looks ok, all the right characters are there, there don't seem to be any permission problems and clearly the system knows the printer is there and can reach it 'cause this blank page comes out..... Second clue: on boot, I get the messsage: "lpt1 not probed due to address conflict with lpt0" and the address range is shown (which is the same as the one shown for lpt0). So, I think, an interrupt conflict (why the kernel is configured for a second lp port, I haven't a clue because there is not hardware for it), and I use lptcontrol to switch to polled mode. No luck. So, I try to access lpt1 by: date | /dev/lpt1. The message is "Port not configured.". Date | /dev/lpt0 produces nothing. Am I getting nothing because of the conflict? Do I nuke lpt1? If so, how do I do that? Sincerely yours in unix frustration, bob Optional Comment: Printcap is basically a good idea, it is consistent with the way terminals are handled..... And, I sure would like to see a basic set of printer definitions bundled with the ditribution (maybe there is one and I misssed it, the distribution is large). Thankfully, by the time I started using unix there were lots of termcap entries around to look at, the same for printcap would probably be really helpful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message