From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 7:55:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5703D37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hercules.icarz.com (ns1.icarz.com [207.99.22.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA25943E65 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 07:55:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blairw@icarz.com) Received: from icarz.com (dhcp107.icarz.com [207.99.22.107]) by hercules.icarz.com (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g76EtnT16419 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 10:55:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D4FE375.90702@icarz.com> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 10:55:49 -0400 From: William Blair Wagner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: USB printer problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ William Blair Wagner : Education is not always knowing the answer, blairw@icarz.com : ...but rather knowing where to look for it! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message