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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:30:05 -0700
From:      Mike Muir <mmuir@es.co.nz>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ULPT success anyone?
Message-ID:  <394ED72D.E73F8741@es.co.nz>
References:  <394ECEDD.30EC5FEC@es.co.nz>

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Mike Muir wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
>         Recently picked up a Brother HL-1240 printer which supports USB and
> Parrallel connections, and since i had a USB cable lying around I
> thought that I might as well try to get the thing working under freebsd
> using ulpt0..
> Well so far no luck, I get kernel panics whenever accessing /dev/ulpt0.
> ulpt0 is certainly picked up on boot and verified with usbdevs. When
> accessing /dev/ulpt0 in any way, it stirs up a response from the printer
> (as if data was coming in, it gets all ready to print, but not data
> comes in so it stops.) My printcap is as follows:
> 
> PRINTCAP:
> 
> Brother HL-1240|HL-1240|lp|local line printer:\
>         :sh:\
>         :lp=/dev/ulpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :ld=\033%-12345X@PJL\r\n@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600\r\n:
> 
> ( The last line is for 600dpi as per the recommendations on
>   http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=234953 )
> 
> Additionally, right before the panic:
> 
> Jun 19 17:50:43 ogre /kernel: uhub0: port error, restarting port 2
> Jun 19 17:50:43 ogre /kernel: ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 3)
> disconnected
> Jun 19 17:50:43 ogre /kernel: ulpt0: detached
> 
> Am I missing something? Is there another setting to be considered?
> Dmesg follows, and yes i've tried w/o SMP support, same thing.
> (Printer works fine in Win2k.)
> 
> Hopefully someone can prevent me from having to spring for a parallel
> cable!

Just to follow up, usbd seems to be causing the panics.. Without it
running, i get some action from the printer (warms up and gets ready to
print) followed by this message from apsfilter's test print:

Printing test page... 
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  1508497 Jun 19 19:28 /aps_testout.VW8581
eval: cannot create /dev/ulpt0: error 16

What might error 16 be?

Seems as though some control is being sent along the wire, but the data
just isnt getting there.. any ideas?

[ogre] [~] > ls -l /dev/ulpt0
crw-------   1 root     wheel    113,   0 Jun 19 19:15 /dev/ulpt0

	-mike.


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