Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:17:16 +0100 From: anselmg@t-online.de (Anselm Garbe) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: HP LaserJet 1000 Message-ID: <20021115081716.GA4938@wotan.garbe>
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Hello, I own an HP LaserJet 1000 printer, which is very similiar to HP LaserJet 1200, but without onboard firmware and PCL support. Instead of PCL it supports the ZJ-Stream format, which seems to be used by HP LJ 1200 internally. Through many hints on linuxprinting.org, this printer works very well under linux now, although it has no firmware onboard. This is because I have to download the printer firmware everytime, I switch it on again. The printer is detected by FreeBSD correctly, similiar to Linux and attached as /dev/ulpt0 (FreeBSD 4.7). Under Linux I'm able to download the firmware through a simple: cat <firmware-file> > /dev/usb/lp0 after switching it on. Under FreeBSD I get an Input/Output error when doing it. If I downloaded the firmware under Linux, I'm able to print under FreeBSD! In past I tried to develop a flash program for this printer under freebsd, because also Linux had problems cat'ting the old firmware. Now there is a new firmware, which works perfectly under linux. But I want to use this printer under freebsd - my favorite os, so I tried to get an USB sniffer for FreeBSD. I found on the FreeBSD USB site a tool called usb_dump.c, which is very old, but I patched it to compile (this tool was of a time, where the usb subsystem structs defined in usb.h didn't had prefixes like uXY_). But this tool is not useable to determine, whats going wrong under FreeBSD while trying to cat the printer image to the printer. I asked you a while ago the same, but I'd no success yet. Any hints? Sincerely, Anselm -- Anselm R. Garbe () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail www.ebrag.de /\ - against microsoft attachments To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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