Hi Julio,

On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Julio Merino wrote:

> Hi all
> I`m trying to setup CUPS with a printer installed in a parallel port.
> The problem is that CUPS doesn`t show the parallel port in the list
> of available connections...

Try to enter "parallel:/dev/lpt0" instead of the text that appeared after
you selected any other option (like "socket:/" ).

> In FreeBSD I had the problem that I needed to boot up the computer
> with the printer powered on; then, it was able to find the printer
> perfectly fine. I`ve tried this on NetBSD but doesn`t solve the
> problem...
> Any point of help?

P.S.: the info is provided _somewhere_ in the docs, you'll have to read them
quite closely...

> Thanks!

Hope that helped.

> Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>

Ciao

Martin

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