On Sunday 25 September 2005 17:21, stanley jobson wrote: > > Usually, if you get "device busy," it means that the printer is simply > > not on or connected properly. Check your parallel cable. > > unfort. my printer is connected properly and it is on while simply > trying to open it with open(/dev/lpt0) - lptest > /dev/lpt0 fails too > ... > > so it seems that fbsd expects some kind of status reply from the printer > - correct? > > if so: how could i by-pass this? (cause my ugly gdi printer is probably > not able to answer correctly) i just wonna have access to my parallel > port ...
It expects that your printer will toggle the BUSY line as it should.. I don't believe you'd be able to print on any OS if this was broken. Are you sure nothing else is using the port? (lpd, cups, etc) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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