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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] printing problem ?
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Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 22:26:42 GMT
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In <2st8j2$qem@news.u.washington.edu> lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu) writes:
>Hi there,
> I just installed FreeBSD 1.1 Release and I can't get the printer working.
>I'm using the same printcap which I used in 1.1 Beta and no problem. I can
>submit the job and the job is queued but I got a strange status for the
>printer:
>wait for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Does your printcap attempt to use /dev/lpa0 or /dev/lpt0? Note that
the generic kernels in 1.1R are configured to use the lpt driver only,
while 1.1BETA used lpa on on the first 2 printer ports.
You will probably have to change your printcap file to use /dev/lpt0
instead of /dev/lpa0, (or recompile your kernel ;-)
Just check (either when your machine boots, or by using dmesg) which
printer ports are actually probed.
Looking at the GENERICAH config:
from GENERICAH rev 1.25.2.1: (This was 1.1BETA)
device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT3" tty irq 7 vector lptintr
device lpa0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty
device lpa1 at isa? port "IO_LPT2" tty
from GENERICAH rev 1.25.2.2: (This is 1.1RELEASE)
device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr
device lpt1 at isa? port? tty
device lpt2 at isa? port? tty
Geoff.
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