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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: printer driver (lpt.c, lpa.c) problem Date: 14 Feb 1994 19:40:42 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2jok3q$pv9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1994Feb6.171732.1643@robkaos.GUN.de> <jmonroyCKu5sw.DBz@netcom.com> <CEB.94Feb6223553@netcom2.netcom.com> <2j57ch$oik@germany.eu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2j57ch$oik@germany.eu.net>, Bernard Steiner <bs@Germany.EU.net> wrote: > >All the probe routines I've seen so far have failed on at least one of my >printers on at least one of the parallell interface cards with at least one of >the dip switch settings for the respective printer. .. > >I'm referring to all the probe routines save the one I hacked up, of course ;-) There is alot of work going on in the FreeBSD mailing lists regarding the current lpt and lpa devices, so if you would like to get involved send email to majordomo@freefall.cdrom.com with a body of 'help' and join in. We're hoping to have a working (really working) driver for 1.1. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.