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From: drw@panix.com (Douglas Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 0.9 Parallel Printer problems
Date: 20 Nov 1993 09:45:04 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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In <9311192341.AA17083@cthulhu> mike.long@analog.com (Mike Long) writes:

>I tried to get my parallel printer to work with NetBSD 0.9 last night.
>I couldn't get it working with either the lpt or the lpa drivers.
[...]

I had problems similar to these.  I tried all the port addresses 
and saw no indication that the kernel was detecting my parallel 
port -- until I accidentally booted the machine with the printer 
cable disconnected.  I finally saw the line
	lpt0 at 0x3bc - 0x3c3 irq 7 on isa
amongst the startup messages.  The same worked for lpa0.  I connected
the cable and restarted lpd, and it proceeded to send all the queued
jobs to the printer.  

I'm still having problems with the output though.  Does anyone know if
there exists an appropriate printcap entry and filters for laserjetII
compatibles, or specifically for a Okidata OL400?