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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2001 16:45:41 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
Cc:        Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0
Message-ID:  <15222.63749.259533.812831@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010812132727.C59678@johncoop>
References:  <20010812095648.Q477@johncoop> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108121329170.94319-100000@www.stelesys.com> <20010812132727.C59678@johncoop>

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John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> types:
> Being MacroHard free, I don't have a WinDoze machine.  I have OS/2--on
> which the Z51 works great through USB; and I have my FreeBSD box--on which
> the printer works only on the parallel port (I'v just tried--using
> apsfilter and setuping up as an HP 500C).

If the printer works with FreeBSD on the parallel port, it's clearly
not a winprinter. That's a lot more useful information than that it
works on some other OS.

> The problem is clearly that FreeBSD doesn't like VIA's UHCI USB
> implementation.  I'll send in a PR.

Seems to work fine here:

uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0xe400-0xe41f irq 10 at device 7.2 on pci0
usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ugen0: Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc. SupraExpress 56e USB V.90, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2
ulpt0: Belkin Components (2nd) F5U002 Parallel printer adapter, rev 1.00/1.04, addr 3, iclass 7/1
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe800-0xe87f mem 0xeb000000-0xeb00007f irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci0

The modem doesn't get much use, but works fine dialing into shell
logins. I moved the printer to this test system, and doing
"cat stuff.ps > /dev/ulpt0" worked just fine.

Either the Lexmark USB lpt implementation is crocked, or something
else in the system is causing problems. Have you got another USB
device you can test with?

	<mike
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