Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:08:35 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> Cc: Mike Porter <mike.porter@xrxgsn.com>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 Message-ID: <20010812210835.A490@johncoop> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108122318300.94319-100000@www.stelesys.com>; from jim@freeze.org on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 20:25:56 -0700 References: <024501c12393$12e13bc0$0300a8c0@laptop> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108122318300.94319-100000@www.stelesys.com>
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On 2001.08.12 20:25 Jim Freeze wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Mike Porter wrote: > > > is it possible (having looked over your dmesg and Mike Meyer's dmesg > and > > noting no differences in the relevant areas, except the IRQ #) that the > > PCL3/HP500 emulation only works over the parallel port interface? I > guess > > this would tend to be disproved by the fact that it works under OS/2 > without > > the driver. I don't know enough about OS/2 to know if what you are > doing > > really would bypass the driver, I'll take your word for that. Are you > > running OS/2 on the same machine under a dual boot scenario, or is this > two > > > The only real test is to take a file printed on windows for the HP500 > printer. Then, from the bsd os, send that file to the z51 printer (you > choose the port) and see if it prints. I won't say it will not work, but > I > would be surprised if it did. ..I'll tell you why. The chip on the Z51 is > very limited. There is not enough room to have an HP500 translater in the > hardware. The only way it could read HP500 is if the commands were NPA > commands or identical to the lexmark file format. > > I would also like to see a copy of the file. > I can quickly tell you if it is in lexmark format. > > > Also, the port you are sending the file to should not matter. We > 'blasted' > files to lexmark printers from various OS's all the time, both parallel > and USB ports, with no problems. > > Jim > > > ========================================================= > Jim Freeze > jim@freeze.org > --------------------------------------------------------- > No comment at this time. > http://www.freeze.org > ========================================================= > O.K., I'm back. The ZIP drive works just fine. With USB debugging turned on in the kernel, I'm getting all kinds of STALL messages from /dev/ulpt0 when I try to send to the Z51. Curiously, I haven't gotten some of the message traffic intervening--probably my buggy ISP again. Anyway, I think the Z51's USB port just doesn't want to play. Back to the drawing board . . . jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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