I have been working on trying to set up my Epson Stylus C80 which is connected via USB for about a week now and I'm at a loss. I have the following items defined in XFree86 4.2 so that the device is recognized by the Server but when I try to use lptcontrol to get it to print all it does is make the printer churn for a second or two, but without output. /dev/lpt0 /dev/ulpt0 XFree86 recognizes the devices as show in this partial snip of my dmesg: ulpt0: EPSON USB Printer, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 Here is what is defined in my Kernel: device lpt # Printer device ulpt # Printer Following the FreeBSD Handbook I've tried doing everything it says to do to get this printer to print with no luck. For example the Handbook says to do the following: # lptest > /dev/lpt0 /dev/lpt0: Device busy. # lptest > /dev/ulpt0 Using the last line the printer spins for a second but that's it but no characters are printed, so I went on to the next step because it's a PostScript printer and tried the following: # cat > /dev/ulpt0 %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont (is this working) show showpage But nothing happens, I also tried the method of creating the file with all of the above contents and doing a: # cat file > /dev/ulpt0 but here again no output. Until I can get the above working there isn't any point in Enabling the spooler. If there is anyone out here that has an Epson Stylus C80 printer that is connected via USB that has gotten theirs working please let me know, or if you see something above that may be my problem and can assist me I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Michael
