lpt0 always busy

stanley jobson stanley.jobson at gmx.ch
Tue Sep 27 08:59:05 PDT 2005


> > 
> > its a canon lbp 460 - ugly gdi printer :)
> 
> Aha, that explains wy it will not work. see this:
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-LBP-460
> 
> the printer can print ascii text at all, it is a raster-only win* gdi
> printer. It is the driver who does all the work.

i know that this printer will never work with fbsd or even linux so i
hoped i could setup a qemu with win98 and just passing lpt0 throu ...
but unfort. this does not work :(

what i need is a possibility to give qemu/vmware access to lpt0 without
any checking done by fbsd 

thx,
regards,
stan


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