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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!nwgw.infi.net!news.infi.net!usenet From: misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help with getting HP540 deskjet to work with frebsd 2.1 Date: 19 Jan 1996 19:09:23 GMT Organization: InfiNet Lines: 8 Message-ID: <4doq93$po9@news.infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: h-adjourn.fay.infi.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; U; 16bit) I have just recently set up freebsd 2.1 I am using a HP-540 deskjet. It works fine with dos/windows but haven't managed to get it to do anything with bsd yet. I'm using the generic kernel. The device is connected to lpt0 with IRQ7. I followed the directions in the bsd manual for setting up the software, but no luck...the printer just sits there doing absolutely nothing. I tried using cat <filename> > /dev/lpt0 and the printer got a sheet of paper out of the intray and fed it to the print head, but did nothing after that... any suggestions? TIA, Tom