RE: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

Hello All: You guys are great! Three replies, with three issues to look at! It appears the problem was a defective () parallel printer cable. The one I was using didn't have all the pins connected. I replaced it with a new one, and now everything works fine. The cable I had must have been a

Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

Hello I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3. The printer doesn`t understand postscript. I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and lpd. I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot. dmesg printer part looks like this: ppbus0: Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5P HP

RE: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

1) Copy a MSDOS text file to the system (one that contains ^M^L as each line terminator) 2) cat file /dev/lpt0 If the file doesen't come out the printer, it's a problem with the parallel post hardware, or the cabling. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

Hello I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3. The printer doesn`t understand postscript. I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and lpd. I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot. dmesg printer part looks like this: ppbus0: Hewlett-Packard HP

Re: Unable to set up LPD to use a HP Laserjet 5p in freeBSD 5.3

On 5/8/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I`m trying to install my HP laserjet 5p on freebsd 5.3. The printer doesn`t understand postscript. I`ve read the handbook and installed ghostscript and lpd. I changed rc.conf to start lpd for each system boot. dmesg printer