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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: lpd problems
Date: 23 Feb 1995 12:25:02 +0100
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Nathan Lawson <nlawson@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu> wrote:
>>: I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and whenever I turn on my printer, it starts
>>: spewing out garbage characters.
>lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 5 on isa
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>It does seem to detect my port there and it prints fine in DOS. Also, there
>are 2 copies of lpd running.
DOS is no argument here. Messy DOS doesn't use interrupts.
Are you sure:
. your printer card is really wired (jumpered) to irq 5?
[the driver _cannot_ detect this itself]
. your cable and card properly connect to the ACK line of the
Centronics interface? [al-cheapo cards/cables are sometimes
broken, and you can't notice this in DOS]
If all else fails, go and configure your printer to not use interrupts
(leave the `irq 5' out of the config file). If you're running a newer
FreeBSD 2 which supports userconfig, boot with option ``-c'' to
disable it.
See if this makes your problem disappear.
--
cheers, J"org work: --- no longer ---
private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)