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From: abs@itu.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [386bsd] Printing troubles after patchkit upgrade
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Date: 4 May 93 21:25:13 GMT
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David Abercrombie (abe@netcom.com) wrote:
: I just upgraded from patchkit 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
: How can I start using the printer drivers
: that come with the patchkit? Symptoms:
: 1) with /dev/lp0, I get a reboot if I try to print
: using lpr.
: 2) with /dev/lpa0 or /dev/lpa0p, I get only empty
: sheets of paper.
: What am I missing? Everything compiles OK, no *.rej
: files were created, and whichever printing device
: I have selected in my kernel configuration file
: shows up OK at autoboot. I ran MAKEDEV and linked /dev/lp
: to whichever driver I had selected for testing. I tried
: edited /etc/printcap a little, but to no avail...
There seems to be a problem with this. After installing the patch-kit
0.2.3, my printing also stopped, but not with such drastic results!
I just restored my old working lpt.c and I was printing again. BTW my
lpt.c is a pre patch 0.2.2 and patched with Strangelmier's (Oops Sorry
for any spelling errors, no insult intended, but I am 5 miles away from
my docs :), interuptless stuff. The lpa in the 0.2.3 patch-kit does not
work for me. I have a sloowww 386DX-20 and an OkiData Laserline printer.
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