Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:55:49 -0400 From: William Blair Wagner <blairw@icarz.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: USB printer problems Message-ID: <3D4FE375.90702@icarz.com>
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Hi Gang,
I've searched the list's archives to little avail, so I hope someone can
help me. Joshua Lee had similar issues, that he and I have discussed,
but still my problem remains.
I'm trying to make my USB HP OfficeJet v40 work as a printer with LPR on
FreeBSD4.6-STABLE. I've carefully read the handbook and have attempted
to adapt the steps for serial and parallel printer setup for the USB.
I'm already struggling early on in testing communication to the printer.
I have USB support enabled and built into the kernel. When booting, the
USB ports are recognized and the usb drivers bound. The HP v40 printer
is recognized and the ugen0 driver bound to it. usbd is running. I
created the ulpt0 and unlpt0 device files using MAKEDEV ulpt0 (from the
/dev directory). My machine is all PCI and AGP - no ISA at all. I don't
beleive there are any resource conflicts. No errors are logged in
/var/run/dmesg.boot nor /var/log/messages.
However, then I try to: # cat /tmp/ps.test > /dev/unlpt0
-or- # cat /tmp/ps.test > /dev/ulpt0
I get the message indicating it's not configured... and ofcourse, it
doesn't work.
I haven't yet installed aspfilter nor ghostscript yet, I figured I'd do
things one step at a time, to avoid additional variables in the mix.
Can anyone, PLEASE, give me some direction? If anyone has any experience
with this printer, please clue me in!
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William Blair Wagner : Education is not always knowing the answer,
blairw@icarz.com : ...but rather knowing where to look for it!
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