From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 18 18:10:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EEB916A40B for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:10:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [204.107.90.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14CB43D67 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:10:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (c-69-249-95-97.hsd1.nj.comcast.net [69.249.95.97]) (authenticated bits=128) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k3IIAVvP045205; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:10:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.3/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3IIAVbZ042160; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:10:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id k3IIAVqd042159; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:10:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: Tuc at T-B-O-H Message-Id: <200604181810.k3IIAVqd042159@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:10:31 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <4444FDDE.90900@centtech.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can USB be used under Linux emulation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:10:47 -0000 > > Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install a driver for a Dell 720 printer with only a > > Linux driver into my printing subsystem... How can I use USB under the > > Linux emulation? > > Don't you keep asking this question? > Yes, sorry, unfortunately I can't find an answer on the web and I don't get a reply here. > > I don't know what you mean by driver, but if it's a ppd file, then > that's a cups printing thing, not FreeBSD. > No, its not only a PPD. There is a filter, few libraries and a backend. > > If it's a hardware driver, > then that won't work on FreeBSD, since the emulation doesn't use linux > kernel modules. > Yes, its a hardware driver . It uses the Lexmark Z600 driver, which seems to need access to something like : /dev/usb/lp0 /proc/bus/usb/devices /dev/usb/lpX /dev/usb/usblpX /dev/usblpX Thanks, Tuc