Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 12:03:23 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> To: Randy Bunchun Lim <rblim@aht.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: attach OKIDATA office44 to FreeBSD on PC? Message-ID: <19981122120323.61496@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> In-Reply-To: <3650891D.41C67EA6@aht.com>; from Randy Bunchun Lim on Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:20:45PM -0800 References: <3650891D.41C67EA6@aht.com>
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On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 12:20:45PM -0800, Randy Bunchun Lim wrote: > >Hi, > > I tried to send print jobs to OKIDATA office44 through parallel port >but only to fail. Later on I figured out that this printer was a > multifunction machine(supporting fax, scanning, and printing) so I >could NOT send print jobs to printer using lpr to parallel port >directly. There is a MFPI(Multi Function Peripheral Interface) driver >between the Host and the MFP. Also the MFPI driver communicate to MFP >using Bi-Centro I/F. But the current MFPI driver only support Window >95. There was NO Unix MFPI driver so far. I plan to implement MFPI >driver on FreeBSD. And I need the following helps: Great! You'll appreciate the Linux work about this I think. But this is GPLed :( The best would be to rewrite it. I've already tried to understand there work and think about a common project, but without the hardware... > >1, How did MFPI driver read/write the parallel port before lpr can >start the burst data transfer? You'll certainly find such info at the Linux parport project's home page (see below) > >2, where can I find more information about parallel port driver? man ppbus on -current Here are few urls relating to parallel port: http://www.lvr.com/parport.htm http://www.lpt.com/pti.htm There's a Linux project for the HP OfficeJet devices, see the following links: http://www.torque.net/parport.html http://www.ifs.physik.uni-stuttgart.de/Personal/RSchreiter/hpoj/ > > Also I would like to ask if anybody had any experiences before to >attach such printers to FreeBSD? > > Your quick response will be appreiated Sorry :) > > /Randy > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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