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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu!phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu!not-for-mail From: nlawson@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu (Nathan Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: lpd problems Date: 13 Feb 1995 12:53:26 -0800 Organization: Cal Poly Lines: 10 Message-ID: <3hogs6$a09@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and whenever I turn on my printer, it starts spewing out garbage characters. I have the lpt port compiled in as 0x378, irq 5, because my sound card is on irq 7. The printer and sound card both work fine in dos, and the printer responds to lpt1. The sound card works in BSD, but the printer refuses to work. Any ideas? Thanks, -- Nathan Lawson | "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more FreeBSD 2.0 | expected in the future." -- Unix Programmers Manual (1972)