On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> The parallel port kind of works if I do a cat - >/dev/lpt0, but if I
> set it up in /etc/printcap the PC crashes whenever something is
> printing.  I've checked that the port is set for irq 7 and is opened
> bidirectionally (:rw:).  There are four modes in the BIOS for the
> port and mostly I've been using compatable.  I did take a spin
> through the other three and I didn't seem to matter.

Try using /dev/lpa0 instead (polled, rather than interrupt-driven). I
haven't had much luck using lpt...

> The other way I could connect the printer is via USB.  When I plug it
> in it gets recognized as ugen0, not ulpt0.  Can't cat to /dev/ugen0
> so I figure it's hopeless to try that in /etc/printcap.

Do you have the ulpt device in your kernel config?
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