From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 09:57:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BEDD16A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orthanc.ab.ca (orthanc.ab.ca [216.123.230.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D36943FDF for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from gandalf.orthanc.ab.ca (gandalf.orthanc.ab.ca [IPv6:3ffe:b00:4001:0:290:27ff:fe93:7e92]) by orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8KGvItE044688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:57:19 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost4 [127.0.0.1]) by gandalf.orthanc.ab.ca (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8KGvIfW074341; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:57:18 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:57:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Kirk Strauser In-Reply-To: <87fzisoi53.fsf@strauser.com> Message-ID: <20030920105425.S74236@gandalf.orthanc.ab.ca> References: <87fzisoi53.fsf@strauser.com> Organization: The Frobozz Magic Homing Pigeon Company MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 1200 on USB X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:57:20 -0000 On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > When I bought my Laserjet 1200SE about a year ago, FreeBSD wasn't capable of > using its USB interface. I see no indication that this has changed. Is > anybody working on this as a personal project? Is there any general > progress on it? I was never able to get mine working under 4.X (4.7 was the last I tried). Under 5.1 it works flawlessly: FreeBSD gandalf.orthanc.ab.ca 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #1: Mon Aug 25 16:03:55 MDT 2003 Perhaps not the answer you wanted, but at least you know there is hope. (Maybe you can install 5.1 on a spare junker.) > Basically, parallel printing 50MB Postscript files is killing me. --lyndon The longest UNIX error code is ENAMETOOLONG.