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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.starnet.net!news.starnet.net!newspump.wustl.edu!crcnews.unl.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!usenet.bridge.com!usenet From: mhughes@bridge.com (Michael Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printer won't work Date: 18 Feb 1997 16:17:45 GMT Organization: Bridge Information Systems, Inc. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5eckn9$nsu@usenet.bridge.com> References: <5ec9iq$rud@web3.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: logroad.bridge.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35696 In article <5ec9iq$rud@web3.tcd.ie>, csdalton@tcd.ie (Colin Dalton) writes: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get a Seikosha SP-2400 printer to work with FreeBSD. It's > in Epson compatible mode, and doing a "copy file prn" from DOS works fine. > However with FreeBSD, a "cat file >/dev/lpt0" results in "Device not ready". > Same with Windows NT - it won't even print the test page - device not > ready. If it wasn't for the fact that it prints just fine from DOS, I'd > say it's the cable, but it can't be. > > Has anyone any ideas? > > -- > Colin Dalton > If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But > this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is > somehow enobled and none dare criticize it. Colin, I would look at the cable, I had the same problem. I could print from the DOS command line, but not in FreeBSD or Coherent. Hope this helps! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _ _ _ _ _ , Loghome living is the ' ) ) ) / // ' ) / / best ! / / / o _. /_ __. _ // /--/ . . _, /_ _ _ / ' (_<_(__/ /_(_/|_</_</_ / (_(_/_(_)_/ /_</_/_)_ Bridge Information Systems, Inc. /| St Louis MO |/ mhughes@bridge.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------