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
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 p
> 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: HP ENHANC
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
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