> Hi, > > a) My s.o. is FreeBSD 4.5 > b) I have a bidirectional cable and port (ECP+EPP/BIOS) > > I think that HP LaserJet4 don't available to read your hardware > pagecounter. The option > ":rw" of printcap don't work. > > The LPRng-HOWTO says: > > "There are two approaches to printing accounting: use software determine > the number of pages that should be printed or use a hardware pagecounter > facility on the printer to accurately determine the number of pages > used. LPRng provides facilities to use either method to determine page > counts." > > How can I use software to determine the number of pages ? > How can I configure my printcap to determine the number of pages printed > if I don't read my hardware pagecounter ? > > thanks, > > -- > Andr�ia Pio da Silva > ________________________________________________________________________ > Centro de Computa��o John David Rogers - CCJDR voice: +55 19 3788.5306 > Instituto de F�sica Gleb Wataghin - IFGW - UNICAMP
Umm... well, I hate to say this, but your printer is old enough (HP4) that the PRINTER may not have bidirectional parallel port support. I just tried one of my HP4 (1991 vintage printers) and it did not. I am a bit puzzled, I thought that the last time I tried this printer it did have parallel IO, but it might have been an HP5 that I used, or an HP4Mx HOWEVER, when I plugged in an INTERAL Jetdirect TCP/IP card, and used it, I got full bidirectional support. Patrick Powell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
