Return to BSD News archive
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!news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!netnews.jhuapl.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okidata printer problem identified :( Date: 17 Apr 1996 15:02:15 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4l315n$lbe@hops.entertain.com> References: <4kk24t$mfr@stout.entertain.com> <4kmtct$f8c@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.45.153.241 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4kmtct$f8c@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) says: > >dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) writes: > >> I posted a message asking about info on how to print to an Okidata >> 610e/PS printer from freeBSD, and I believe I have found out why the >> printer will not work with the spooler daemon: the printer requires bi- >> directional communications, and FreeBSD doesn't yet support that option. > >What does the printer want to tell the computer in return? > I have no idea. But, in any case, I got the thing working. It doesn't use the bi-directional capabilities of the printer... lpd simply dumps what is in the queue. No, the problem was that I should have disabled the burst page via the 'sh' printcap tag. Once I did that, it started working like a charm!