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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:19:30 +0000
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
Cc:        Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch for ulpt. {was Re: usb printer problem (clarified)}
Message-ID:  <20021115191930.GA3492@genius.tao.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200211150046.02022.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
References:  <20021012210204.GA484@raggedclown.net> <3DD2EB08.D3E847C4@ntlworld.com> <20021114233018.GA1761@genius.tao.org.uk> <200211150046.02022.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>

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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?
> >
>=20
> No it doesn't work, but that's nothing to do with this code.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20

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
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