From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 14: 7:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBE537B423 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:07:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f3HL7UV22066; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:07:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:07:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: Jonathan Chen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARGH! Stupid LPD error... Message-ID: <20010417160730.A20235@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20010418085851.A4712@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.17i In-Reply-To: ; from "scanner@jurai.net" on Tue Apr 17 17:04:02 GMT 2001 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Apr 17), scanner@jurai.net said: > Makes sense. I just cant figure out WHY its refusing to print. I > can't even cat file > /dev/lpt0. It times out. Something is jacked > and I just cannot figure it out. Is the printer offline maybe? Try running "lptcontrol -p" to set the printer device to polled mode. That has helped for me in the past. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message