Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:49:57 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <frans-jan@van-steenbeek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printers on /dev/ulpt* Message-ID: <44irn580ga.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200606131440.04350.frans-jan@van-steenbeek.net> (Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek's message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:40:04 %2B0200") References: <200606131440.04350.frans-jan@van-steenbeek.net>
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"Frans-Jan v. Steenbeek" <frans-jan@van-steenbeek.net> writes: > Recently I have installed a printserver at my work to make use of all those > USB-printers in our network. Everything is running fine, thank you :) > > The printers are turned off every night, and they get there /dev-entry when > turned on again, as expected. Cups is serving them on the network, so Cups > looks for the appropriate /dev/ulpt*. > > I have had to teach my colleagues to turn the printers on in the right order. > When they are switched on in a different order, the wrong printer > gets /dev/ulpt0, another wrong printer gets /dev/ulpt1 etc. Is there a way to > get around this? Can I assign a /dev/ulpt*-entry to a certain device, even > when it is off? Or is there another workaround (in Cups perhaps)? You should be able to do something with usbd.conf(5). Maybe the easy way would be to link a "nickname" node to the real node for a particular product/vendor ID.
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