From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 16 17:23:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7367537B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:23:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ubik.demon.co.uk ([194.222.125.229]) by anchor-post-31.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16cG32-000AYP-0V; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:23:25 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 01:22:02 +0000 To: Nikolai Georgiev Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org From: Anthony Naggs Subject: Re: Lexmark Z12 References: <200202162307.g1GN7YT00855@nips.ebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <200202162307.g1GN7YT00855@nips.ebsd.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200202162307.g1GN7YT00855@nips.ebsd.net>, Nikolai Georgiev writes >Is there somebody /smth/ that can make >my Lexmark Z12 work? The following is how remember a previous look at this. I can't get past a page with lots printer pictures at www.lexmark.com, i.e. to some tech specs for this model. This is an example of the printer equivalent of a "winmodem". The printer is very stupid and all the work is done by the printer driver, it will not even print ASCII on its own. As far as I know Lexmark only have drivers for windows, and they do not (openly) publish documentation for a clone to be made for BSD. Linux is also stumped by this cheap & nasty printer, according to: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/incompatible.html Sorry, unless you can hang this off a win box it is little more than a doorstop. You could, as a customer, write to Lexmark and ask them for help connecting it to FreeBSD. Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message