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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with getting HP540 deskjet to work with frebsd 2.1 Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:06:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4e159b$bps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4doq93$po9@news.infi.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 misiak <misiak@foto.infi.net> writes: > 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. The Deskjet 540 is said to not work properly in interrupt mode, alas. Seems to be a bug in the current driver. Until it's fixed, use lptcontrol(8) to force your driver into polled mode. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)