Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:34:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis <dl-freebsd@catspoiler.org> To: mikko@dynas.se Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, john@jnielsen.net, molter@tin.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB support for new HP printers? Message-ID: <200208262234.g7QMY0wr050558@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <20020826082508.X356-100000@atlas.home>
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On 26 Aug, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
>> John Nielsen wrote:
>> > "FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are not yet supported in USB mode, due to
>> > missing functionality in the kernel "ulpt" driver (bidirectional I/O,
>> > device ID retrieval, switching to 7/1/3, and HP channel-change-request)."
>>
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that bidirectional I/O is supported, or there
>> would be no network devices.
>
> [...]
>
> Though the USB stack handles bi-directional communication, ulpt does not:
>
> Static struct cdevsw ulpt_cdevsw = {
> /* open */ ulptopen,
> /* close */ ulptclose,
> /* read */ noread, <---- !
> ...
I'd like to have bi-directional communication support in the ulpt driver
for my Epson ink jet printer so that I could use the utilities to check
the ink levels and align the nozzles. This feature is on the ToDo list
on the FreeBSD USB project page. I looked at the existing driver code a
while back, but that's as far as I got :-(
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