Date: 01 Mar 2003 18:21:02 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Epson 740/USB Revisited Message-ID: <u2sbs0uwu5d.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030227235730.GA453@raggedclown.net> References: <20030227235730.GA453@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> writes: > Some time ago a discussion took place here on the inability to use an > Epson 740 printer on a USB port, it was a case of "it used to work" and > then "it does not anymore" after some updates later. > I gave up trying. > Well, I tried again..now months later..and guess what, it works but *only* if the printer > is plugged into the USB port and turned on at the time you boot the > machine. If you turn it on later, things get queued for mail, but never > printed until after a reboot...previously things got queued and then > disappeared from the queue as though they had been printed. > > Conclusions ? > I remember having those exact symptoms, until I switched to the parallel cable a good few months ago. I tested over USB just now, on a 4.8-PRERELEASE, and it seems to work for me either way: - printer off when system boots - printer on when system boots -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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