Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:49:40 +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: <200509260849.50510.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050925181238.6bfe01fb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> References: <20050924180909.78a29487.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch> <200509252330.05256.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050925181238.6bfe01fb.stanley.jobson@gmx.ch>
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--nextPart2252079.oe6rJI515z Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 26 September 2005 01:42, Stanley Jobson wrote: > > > i have a separate box running win98. from this box i am able to use t= he > > > printer with the orig vendor driver without any problem ... > > > > Hmm, well it's possible the serial port is broken.. > > maybe ... Err parallel port :) > > Have you tried using lptcontrol to put it into simple mode? > > root@tyrael seb $ lptcontrol -s -d /dev/lpt0.ctl > root@tyrael seb $ > > > What do you see in dmesg? > > lpt0: switched to interrupt-driven standard mode > > looks that everything is ok - not ? > but open(/dev/lpt0) still complains about "device busy" ... It seriously looks like the printer, cable or port are broken, or the print= er=20 is very very special.. What sort of printer is it? You could try printing to /dev/lpt0.ctl since that will ignore BUSY for the= =20 open. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2252079.oe6rJI515z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDNzCW5ZPcIHs/zowRAhpMAJ9ytRf5bYCDvuaYwouKX9bzzXkkFQCdFOih uP1dcwYFcKCmRmNSAZiA/1c= =VQF5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2252079.oe6rJI515z--
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