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
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
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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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
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