From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 16 10:49:43 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09371 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:49:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09364 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 10:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA34753; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:49:25 GMT Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:49:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Nicolas Souchu cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ZIP+ detection, need testers for the patch In-Reply-To: <19990116195026.31931@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:13:09AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > >On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> > >> Currently, the ZIP+ probe is intrusive and sends char to the printer if > >> no ZIP+ is connected. > >> > >> Here is a patch that corrects the problem for my printer, but I haven't > >> any ZIP+ :) > >> > >> So, please check the ZIP+ is still detected. > > > >With this patch, I can *not* detect my ZIP+ (attached to a machine which > >detects it using the existing code). > > Ok :( > > Does the last ppbus committed code (with IEEE1284 support) detects your > ZIP+ at boot? Something like "IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE..." with > its id 2 lines after? This may be another way to detect properly the ZIP+ Afraid not :-(. The ppb_1284_negociate fails with an error of PPB_NOT_IEEE1284. I haven't tried using the PERIPH_1284 option which seems to affect the negotiation - is it worth trying? P.S. The correct spelling is 'negotiate'. I keep wanting to do a global-replace :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message