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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!news-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!boulder!usenet From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't Print! Help! Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:03:51 -0700 Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3149DB37.1BEB@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <314822da.1105658@news1.wolfe.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: kelly X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/715) Jim wrote: > I compiled the kernel to recognize my lpt port, which it does upon > startup. I try a lptest > /dev/lpt0 and after about 5-10 seconds the > prompt comes back, but nothing gets sent to the printer. Try switching to/from polled mode versus interrupt mode. To switch to polled mode, type lptcontrol -p lptest > /dev/lpt0 For interrupt mode lptcontrol -i lptest > /dev/lpt0 If one works, use that mode. To make the setting permanent, see file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html and select Setting Up the Spooling System, then Simple Printer Setup, then Kernel Configuration, and look for Setting the Communication Mode for the Parallel Port. On the Internet, just see http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook86.html#printing:parallel-port-mode -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/