From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 2 11:26:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-99.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9263237B66C for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:26:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e92IRPr26490 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:27:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:27:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: HP500 deskjet and 4.X In-Reply-To: <20001002111434.A12622@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Gary Kline wrote: > [...DeskJet 500 not probed...] > > I'm not 100% sure of many things, but here is what > is in my KERNEL file related to the printer port: > > # Parallel port > device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 > device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) > device lpt # Printer > device plip # TCP/IP over parallel > device ppi # Parallel port interface device > #device vpo # Requires scbus and da > > > The ppbus code probably can't tell much about > an old DeskJet--that's my hand-waving SWAG;). > For now, since I believe the DJ works--it works > with a simple ASCII file, I haven't tried anything > fancy-- I'm happy. My even-more-ancient OfficeJet 350 gets probed (as an OfficeJet 300); therefore, I'd be surprised if your DeskJet does not. apsfilter is your friend. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message