Re: Parallel Printer Problem
My first thought is to check your BIOS, and try enabling/disabling any "auto config" features associated with this port. In my experience, ppc0 *just works*. However, I did a google groups search, and I found some threads describing your problem, and providing solutions along these lines. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ppc0%3A%20cannot%20reserve%20I%2FO%20port%20range&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg Good luck! Donald Szatkowski wrote: Thank you for considering my question. I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel port fails to initialize at startup. #uname -a FreeBSD bsd4_10.maingear.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47?12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 #dmesg: Copyright (c) 1979,1980,1983,1986,1988,1989,1991,1992,1993,1994 The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin= "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5 Features=0x1bf real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 125169664 (122236K bytes) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 14.0 irq 9 dc0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbeec00-oxffbeefff irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1e:be:f7 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xed000, 0xed000-0xedfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irrq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff issq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range ad0: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO4 mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a # The following is info from Windows98 system report: IRQ usage summary: 07 - Printer port (LPT1) I/O port usage summary: 03BCh-03BFh - Printer port (LPT1) The following was attempted: # /dev/MAKEDEV lpt0 # dmesg | grep lpt0 no response, just returned to root cursor # ALSO: #dmesg:Boot ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range From the dmesg at boot, it is obvious that the ppc0 cannot reserve I/O range needed for the parallel port. My problem is , I don't know what to do NOW I can find no reference in the Handbook or in FAQ's that address my problem. Can anyone assist in getting this printer to work? by the way, printer works fine with 98. Thanks in advance Donald Szatkowski ___ [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]"
Parallel Printer Problem
Thank you for considering my question. I am having trouble getting a direct parallel port printer to work. I have narrowed the problem down to the initial boot process, but am unable to resolve the problem of no printer port. The problem is that the parallel port fails to initialize at startup. #uname -a FreeBSD bsd4_10.maingear.com 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47?12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 #dmesg: Copyright (c) 1979,1980,1983,1986,1988,1989,1991,1992,1993,1994 The Regents of the University of California, All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #0: Tue May 25 22:47:12 GMT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (99.47-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin= "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping = 5 Features=0x1bf real memory = 134217728 (131072K bytes) avail memory = 125169664 (122236K bytes) Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 14.0 irq 9 dc0: port 0xfc00-0xfcff mem 0xffbeec00-oxffbeefff irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:20:78:1e:be:f7 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: at iomem 0xc-0xed000, 0xed000-0xedfff on isa0 pmtimer0 on isa0 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irrq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 kbd0 at atkbd0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 sc0: at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff issq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range ad0: 58644MB [119150/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO4 mounting root from ufs:ad0s1a # The following is info from Windows98 system report: IRQ usage summary: 07 - Printer port (LPT1) I/O port usage summary: 03BCh-03BFh - Printer port (LPT1) The following was attempted: # /dev/MAKEDEV lpt0 # dmesg | grep lpt0 no response, just returned to root cursor # ALSO: #dmesg:Boot ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range From the dmesg at boot, it is obvious that the ppc0 cannot reserve I/O range needed for the parallel port. My problem is , I don't know what to do NOW I can find no reference in the Handbook or in FAQ's that address my problem. Can anyone assist in getting this printer to work? by the way, printer works fine with 98. Thanks in advance Donald Szatkowski ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Parallel Printer
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Donald Szatkowski wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD 4.10r2 and am having trouble with the printer setup. > This is on and OLD Gateway P5-100, 128mb ram (yah-100Mhz!). This should be fine. > It is a direct connect to the parallel port. My main source document > is the FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd ed. and the online Handbook @ > FreeBSD.org. I have the necc. files as directed by Chapter 11, but am > still having problems. (/etc/printcap, /dev/lpt0, etc). When I test > with #lptest >/dev/lpt0, I get nothing. Some printers are not capable of printing plain text. You do not mention which printer you have. > My initial install selection was for parallel printing. And checking > rc.conf shows "lpd="YES". It should be lpd_enable="YES". > When I "#grep ppc0 /var/run/dmesg.boot" I get the message, "can not > reserve input output range". When I"#dmesg | grep lpt0" I get the > message, "lpt0 not configured". These are a problem. Please post the entire, exact lines returned as results of these commands. At this point, I suggest you do not install any additional printing software until you have identified the make and model of printer and sorted out why you are seeing the odd errors above. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Parallel Printer
The problem most likely has little to do with your computer or cables. Setting up printers on Unix can be a pain. I recommend using the apsfilter or cups port instead of trying to set it up manually. I've used both and have had success with both, but settled upon apsfilter (for no particular reason) although my printer accepts PostScript by default. You'll need to give the group detailed information about your printer instead of the CPU in order to get help related to this issue. Jon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Parallel Printer
Thank you for reading this message. I have installed FreeBSD 4.10r2 and am having trouble with the printer setup. This is on and OLD Gateway P5-100, 128mb ram (yah-100Mhz!). It is a direct connect to the parallel port. My main source document is the FreeBSD Handbook, 2nd ed. and the online Handbook @ FreeBSD.org. I have the necc. files as directed by Chapter 11, but am still having problems. (/etc/printcap, /dev/lpt0, etc). When I test with #lptest >/dev/lpt0, I get nothing. My initial install selection was for parallel printing. And checking rc.conf shows "lpd="YES". When I "#grep ppc0 /var/run/dmesg.boot" I get the message, "can not reserve input output range". When I"#dmesg | grep lpt0" I get the message, "lpt0 not configured". Here is where the problems begin. Thinking maybe the printer or cable might be the problem, I pulled the BSD hard drive, reinstalled the win95 hard drive, tested the printer and it worked fine! Reinstall the BSD drive and boot, no printer! IRQ 7 the same. To this, I suspect the KERNEL, yet all matches the examples with one exception. In the KERNEL file under #Parallel Port, the printer is listed at ppc0 and not lpt0. Have I misinterpreted something? Are they the same, should all ref to lpt0 be ppc0? Otherwise, BSD is working fine! If anyone could direct me to another resource, or drop a hint, it sure would be appreciated. ThanksDon ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
