Re: Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 5.2
William Segars [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having trouble with freebsd 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2. Neither of them recognizes my printer or floppy drive. I am a BSD novice and use KDE as a graphical interphase. I'm guessing that your problems have more to do with KDE than with FreeBSD per se; this is worth checking into so you can focus on the most knowledgeable help available. [which is to say I don't know much about KDE...] 1) I have a Canon BJC-210. I have downloaded and installed Cups, Aspfilter, asfilter, ghostscript etc and none of these recognizes my printer. I get this message on bootup ppc0: (parallel port) at port 0x378-0x37F irq 7 on ISA ppbus0: (parallel portbus) on ppc0 1pt0: (printer) on pp bus 0 pp0: (parallel I/O) on ppbus 0 However it doesn't seem to know my printer is there when I try to print. Printing from the command line? If you can print from the command line (e.g., lpr /etc/rc.conf), then the printer is set up fine and your problem is getting your applications to understand it. I don't have any problems with that, but you may be trying something KDE specific. 2) I get this message at bootup fd0: (1440-kb 3.5 drive) on fdc drive 0 However, I can't access the floppy drive. When I create an Icon and put the path /dev/fd/fd0. I can't access the floppy. Again, if you can do it from the command line (mount -t msdos /dev/fd0c /mnt/floppy on 4.x), the OS is working fine. 3) I use efax and have kdefax and tkfax as my frontend. My modem is configured in kde as cuaa0. Efax uses modem as a default. How can I change it to cuaa0. In the execution file at /usr/local/bin/fax - it has a line that says DEV=modem #DEV=cuaa1 when I change it to #Dev=cuaa0 - it makes no difference. The only way I have found around this is to go to /dev/cuaa0 (using graphical interphase) - pull it out to my desktop and using link application. I change the name to modem and put it back (there is now both a cuaa0and modem in /dev. Then I'm able to send faxes. However, there is no way to save this configuration and when I turn off my computer it resets to the original settings Sounds like a devfs issue on 5.x. I'm not using 5.x yet, but I think there's a devfs.conf that can configure this for you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 5.2
You'll have the mount the floppy drive first by means of the mount command. Check out man mount for more details. To make things easier, you can edit your /etc/fstab file and add a floppy entry there (if it isn't already existing) here is an example: /dev/fd0/floppy msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 About your printer, I'm afraid I can't really help you with that. I never got my printer working either. Unix and printing still isn't as easy as it is with Bill's OS. Cheers, Jorn On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:48, William Segars wrote: Gentleman and Ladies: I am having trouble with freebsd 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2. Neither of them recognizes my printer or floppy drive. I am a BSD novice and use KDE as a graphical interphase. 1) I have a Canon BJC-210. I have downloaded and installed Cups, Aspfilter, asfilter, ghostscript etc and none of these recognizes my printer. I get this message on bootup ppc0: (parallel port) at port 0x378-0x37F irq 7 on ISA ppbus0: (parallel portbus) on ppc0 1pt0: (printer) on pp bus 0 pp0: (parallel I/O) on ppbus 0 However it doesn't seem to know my printer is there when I try to print. 2) I get this message at bootup fd0: (1440-kb 3.5 drive) on fdc drive 0 However, I can't access the floppy drive. When I create an Icon and put the path /dev/fd/fd0. I can't access the floppy. 3) I use efax and have kdefax and tkfax as my frontend. My modem is configured in kde as cuaa0. Efax uses modem as a default. How can I change it to cuaa0. In the execution file at /usr/local/bin/fax - it has a line that says DEV=modem #DEV=cuaa1 when I change it to #Dev=cuaa0 - it makes no difference. The only way I have found around this is to go to /dev/cuaa0 (using graphical interphase) - pull it out to my desktop and using link application. I change the name to modem and put it back (there is now both a cuaa0and modem in /dev. Then I'm able to send faxes. However, there is no way to save this configuration and when I turn off my computer it resets to the original settings I have been a Linux user for many years. The port/packages system that BSD uses is far superior to RPM's or any other linux systems (with the possible exception of aptget for Debian which I have never used). I'd like to keep Freebsd as my operating system of choice but I need to get these problems solved. Thank you in advance for your help. William Segars __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Freebsd 4.9, 5.1 5.2
Gentleman and Ladies: I am having trouble with freebsd 4.9, 5.1, and 5.2. Neither of them recognizes my printer or floppy drive. I am a BSD novice and use KDE as a graphical interphase. 1) I have a Canon BJC-210. I have downloaded and installed Cups, Aspfilter, asfilter, ghostscript etc and none of these recognizes my printer. I get this message on bootup ppc0: (parallel port) at port 0x378-0x37F irq 7 on ISA ppbus0: (parallel portbus) on ppc0 1pt0: (printer) on pp bus 0 pp0: (parallel I/O) on ppbus 0 However it doesn't seem to know my printer is there when I try to print. 2) I get this message at bootup fd0: (1440-kb 3.5 drive) on fdc drive 0 However, I can't access the floppy drive. When I create an Icon and put the path /dev/fd/fd0. I can't access the floppy. 3) I use efax and have kdefax and tkfax as my frontend. My modem is configured in kde as cuaa0. Efax uses modem as a default. How can I change it to cuaa0. In the execution file at /usr/local/bin/fax - it has a line that says DEV=modem #DEV=cuaa1 when I change it to #Dev=cuaa0 - it makes no difference. The only way I have found around this is to go to /dev/cuaa0 (using graphical interphase) - pull it out to my desktop and using link application. I change the name to modem and put it back (there is now both a cuaa0and modem in /dev. Then I'm able to send faxes. However, there is no way to save this configuration and when I turn off my computer it resets to the original settings I have been a Linux user for many years. The port/packages system that BSD uses is far superior to RPM's or any other linux systems (with the possible exception of aptget for Debian which I have never used). I'd like to keep Freebsd as my operating system of choice but I need to get these problems solved. Thank you in advance for your help. William Segars __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
