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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!newsstand.tc.umn.edu!not-for-mail From: back0003@gold.tc.umn.edu (Jan E Backlund) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: [Q] Tips on troubleshooting lpt0 Date: 2 Jun 1995 20:48:06 -0500 Organization: University of Minnesota Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3qof0m$riv@gold.tc.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.tc.umn.edu I can't get my HP Laserjet III printer going on lpt0 with either 041295SNAP or 2-0-5-ALPHA. I have a generic VESA local bus VL IDE & I/O controller (no brand name on the one page manual!) The printer works under dos and Linux. Lpt0 is recognized during system startup and the address and interrupt correspond with the manufacturers specs (0x378, irq 7). When i give the command "cat text.file > /dev/lpt0" i get the error message "device is busy". When i kill the lpr deamon and try to "cat text.file > /dev/lpt0" i get the error message "device not configured" I run MAKEDEV lpt0, but this has no effect. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.