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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!randyc From: randyc@soda.berkeley.edu (Randy Yen-pang Chou) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: ethernet and printer problems... Date: 12 Jul 1994 18:13:41 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley Lines: 44 Message-ID: <2vumgl$c2m@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu Hello, I've been trying to setup a printer and ethernet card for a friend and kept on running into problems. The printer doesn't print and the ethernet connection is very slow. Here's the system configuartion: - FreeBSD 1.1R installed - Gateway 2000 486DX266 - Ethernet , NE2000 (16 bit) The card is attached to irq 5 and seems to be correctly detected as ed1. - Apple Prowriter postcript printer on lpt1 - 8 MB ram - Ati Mach32 video card The printer seems to be setup correctly. The LED on the printer actually flashes when I do a "lpr [ps file]" but nothing gets printed. But the same file prints fine in dos when I do "copy [ps file] lpt1:". Here's the printcap: lp|mylp:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/mylp: The ethernet problem seems a lot more complicated. I keep on getting: /386bsd: ed1 timeout "ftp" transfers seem to run ok, but "telnet" is worse than running acrsoss a 14.4 modem. If you have any suggestions on how to fix the problems, please reply through email. Thanks. ---Randy