From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 5 20:33:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10305 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:33:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA10287 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 20:32:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 2520 invoked from network); 6 Apr 1998 03:42:22 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 6 Apr 1998 03:42:22 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032998 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 20:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Doug White Subject: Re: ALPS MD-1300 SCSI PRinter Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Apr-98 Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > >> Does anyone know how to make this printer work in FreeBSD? >> >> How about running it from the Parallel Port instead of SCSI? > > **SCSI**? Eh? I don't think that's supported, but you're welcome to > program us a driver :-) If you can get it to talk in parallel mode that > would be much better. I'll settle for ANY protocol information. From playing with it, it looks like quite a bit of the logic is on the host :-( It transmits colors one at a time, etc. But would be nice to have the thing work under Unix. Get me the specs, I'll write the driver. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message