Printer/usb problems

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Jul 9 10:51:38 UTC 2019


On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 03:56:45 +0200, d7o9idh8jlaj at opayq.com wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> 10.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE #0 r324094: Fri Sep 29 01:45:44 UTC 
> 2017     root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> Trying to get my printer working again, but it won't.
> 
> Error is: lpd[596]: /dev/unlpt0: No such file or directory.
> Same error with /dev/ulpt0
> 
> So I'm a bit stuck.

So back to the basics.

When you attach the printer, what message is added to the "dmesg"
output? Is the printer recognized at all (ugen)? This should be
the first step in finding out why no u(n)lpt device is created.

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Polytropon
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