Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:03:29 CDT From: dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer Message-ID: <200105010401.VAA04969@hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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Well I just spent about an hour playing with my cards on my motherboard and the BIOS. I have a KT7-RAID board which has two USB interfaces so I get usb0 and usb1 using the same IRQ. My network card <3com> was sharing the IRQ with the USB stuff.... I changed that by moving the card and using the PIRQ stuff on BIOS to change the settings of the IRQ's for each device. To make a long story short it didn't work for me. I have a hunch that the printer doesn't work very well on USB when there are two USB ports on the motherboard. If I kill USBD I don't get output but it doesn't reboot either. Is there such a thing as a cable with a parallel port on the PC side and USB on the printer side? If so that may be the only solution for me to print in FreeBSD. I could also wait until I get DSL and get my other windows box to share the printer and print through SAMBA connections only. I really don't want to go back to linux <and I won't just for the printer...> Anyway I could always print from Windows I guess... Dave On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 07:44:37 -0500 > To: dleimbac@earthlink.net > From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> > Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer > > dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types: > > > > From my dmesg... > > > > ulpt0: Brother Industries, Ltd. product 0x0006, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 2, > > iclass 7/1 > > > > > > It seems to have it. > > > > I noticed you had a similar problem in the mailing list. > > > > What was your solution? > > What I alluded to at the end of my first answer. Tweaking the BIOS > settings so that the USB device and the ??? - I forget, it was either > one of the SCSI controllers, or the ethernet board - didn't have the > same IRQ. > > <mike > > Dave > > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:31:43 -0500 > > > To: dleimbac@earthlink.net > > > From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> > > > Subject: Re: Brother HL-1240 laser printer > > > > > > dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types: > > > > > > > > usbdevs show the hub and the printer are detected. > > > > > > Yes, but that happens even if it's not recognized as a ulpt > > > device. Check the dmesg. > > > > > > <mike > > > > > > > > First, make sure that ulpt0 shows up in your dmesg. If it > doesn't, > > > you > > > > > need to add uhci or ohci - you can take out the one that doesn't > show > > > > > up - usb and ulpt to your config. > > > > > > > > > > Then do "./MAKEDEV ulpt0" in /dev to make the device. > > > > > > > > > > Then set it up like a normal printer, using /dev/ulpt0 instead of > > > > > /dev/lpt0. > > > > > > > > > > Oh yeah - make sure USB is enabled in your BIOS. While you're > there, > > > > > check for IRQ conflicts. Some devices share IRQs, some don't. > > > > > > > > > > <mike > > > > > -- > > > > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > > > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > > > > > information. > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > > > information. > > > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more > information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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