hi, i am now trying for weeks to get my lpt0 working without any success :(
i always get "device busy" (running lptcontrol, lptest, open(/dev/lpt0)). i found a lot of questions about this via google and some hints too (e.g. excluding device ppi from kernel) but all this didnt help :( i should mention that my printer connected to lpt0 is a funny gdi printer which only works under win98. so my idea was to use qemu to run a emulated win98 to get my printer working - but therefore qemu needs to be able to open /dev/lpt0 ... finally i wrote a simple c prog which just calls open(/dev/lpt0) but it also always fails with device busy :( what are the requirements to successfully open lpt0 port (apart from having connected a printer to it) ? does fbsd expects a response from the printer (e.g. ready status)? maybe my printer is not able to do this ... if so: what are possible workarounds? could i convice the kernel that lpt0 is ready? thx regards, stan ps: i am running fbsd 5.4 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
