Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:49:18 +0000
From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Patch for ulpt. {was Re: usb printer problem (clarified)}
Message-ID: <200211151949.18808.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021115191930.GA3492@genius.tao.org.uk>
References: <20021012210204.GA484@raggedclown.net> <200211150046.02022.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> <20021115191930.GA3492@genius.tao.org.uk>
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On Friday 15 November 2002 7:19 pm, Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:10:21PM +0000, ian j hart wrote: > > > The important thing is does the printer work? :) You've not said. > > > If it doesn't, did it before the patch? > > > > No it doesn't work, but that's nothing to do with this code. > > > > There are two problems. First the printer advertises 7/1/3 so it needs > > the IEEE1284 support. This was why I replied. The printer is now found as > > ulpt rather than ugen. > > > > There is a second problem. As I understand it, the printer needs > > to be sent a channel-change-request before it will use the usb input. > > The HP OfficeJet project on sourceforge has a working Linux version, so > > it shouldn't be too much of a problem. > > Maybe you could isolate the bit of code in the linux driver that does > the trick and we could then put something like it into ulpt. Is this > specific to HP printers do you know? > > Joe I don't normally do "kernel" stuff, and I certainly don't do Linux, but I'll have a look. You should take a look at the HPOJ site. http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/ Here are a couple of source references. http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/doc/ioctl_requests.html http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/download/linux-usb-printer/ -- ian j hart Quoth the raven, bite me! Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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