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Date:      Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:15:44 +0000
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <netchild@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nlpt & polling mode didn't work
Message-ID:  <19990107231544.61205@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199901041137.MAA10608@wurzelausix>; from Alexander Leidinger on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 12:37:29PM %2B0100
References:  <19981229221203.55044@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> <199901041137.MAA10608@wurzelausix>

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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 12:37:29PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>
>On 29 Dec, Nicolas Souchu wrote:
>
>>>$Subject anymore after cvsup (98.12.24).
>>>The working one is around release (sorry, can't be more specific).
>> 
>> September, October...?
>
>~1 day before release.
>
>>>The problem:
>>>It takes a looooong time to send data to the printer.
>> 
>> Printing is ok?
>
>I think (nobody wants to wait more than 15 minutes for the page).
>BTW: I have only 3rd person access to it. Its the system of my brother,
>and hi is only an user. 

And I imagine the old-lpt code works.

>
>> This is polling... and interrupts?
>
>Its an additional 3rd party interface card (a little bit old). Only
>polling possible (no modern features like e.g. ECP).
>Over the motherboard chipset everything is fine (only interrupts
>tested).
>
>> What's your chipset?
>
>The 3rd party cards have
>MP101D 
>HC138
>ALS00A 17KD (Texas Instruments?)
>and
>HM82C11C 9739 C79N5
>on them.

I recognize none.

>
>Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>> Btw., the question about which printer also belongs here.
>
>There are two printers connected, a HP OfficeJet 635 via the on board
>chipset and a Kyocera FS-600 (laser) via the 3rd party card. Connecting
>the laser to the motherboard port works fine, but on the 3rd party card
>it needs ages to print a page. As already mentioned, this didn't happen
>with ~3.0-release.

You may add printfs to the /sys/dev/ppbus/nlpt.c to check where it fails.

>
>Bye,
>Alexander.
>
>-- 
>http://netchild.home.pages.de     A.Leidinger @ wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de
>
>

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