Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:57:15 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: remegius@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interactive Port Message-ID: <4c7e075b.8edSaF5Xw9mGHkRS%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20100901000413.GA1559@bsd.remdog.net>
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Rem P Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> wrote: > Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer > was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete > dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condition > existed. The printer itself indicated that it was online---no > problem. What happened is that somehow, and I'm not sure what > caused this, the printer became disengaged from its usb port. I'd call it a bug in the printer that it continues to indicate online when it has lost its connection to its host (unless it also has a network connection, and in that case I imagine you'd be using the network instead of USB). > ... The only way that I could get it talking again to usb was by > doing a reboot. Now _that_ sounds like a possible bug in the USB subsystem, since USB is supposed to be completely hot-pluggable and should not need a reboot to get itself straightened out after a mishap. Cc-ing usb@ list. One question which will surely arise is, which FreeBSD version are you using? The USB stack was completely rewritten in 8.0.help
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