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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!dimensional.com!winternet.com!news.neocom.ca!news From: 72311.313@compuserve.com (Harold Smorodin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: lpt0 prints one character / second Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:44:08 GMT Organization: Neocom Communications Lines: 30 Message-ID: <46el49$h5t@news.neocom.ca> References: <46e3ro$ou6@skydiver.jaguNET.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arn105.neocom.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 emerys@confucius.omniscient.com (Sean Emery) wrote: >Hello All, >I am having some difficutly getting my printer to print as a line printer. >It seems that I am getting on character per second sent to the printer. [snip] >-sean. I have the same problem when I forget to turn the printer on BEFORE booting FreeBSD. The following works for me: 1. Issue command: shutdown -h now 2. Wait for disk sync message. 3. Hard system reset and/or toggle power on/off. (Ctrl-Alt-Del won't help.) 4. Make sure printer is ON and ON-LINE 5. Boot FreeBSD I hope this works for you. --Harold