Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:16:29 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1011582990.1a3124@mired.org> To: Rik Scarborough <RikSca@kc.rr.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Printer Message-ID: <15428.61581.849827.192624@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <31827729@toto.iv>
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Rik Scarborough <RikSca@kc.rr.com> types: > * Mike Meyer (mwm-dated-1011554262.e15458@mired.org) [020115 14:36]: > > IIRC, the dmesg output you posted showed the device as ugen, not > > ulpt. That means the lpt driver isn't recognizing it as a printer for > > some reason. In this case, either 1) it's a WinPrinter connected via > > USB, and your SOL, or > That's possible, it's a HP, and not one of the really expensive ones. > However, in trying to fix this, I install and setup apsfilter and it > lists this printer (HP Photosmart 1215) as one of the HP drivers. I'm > hoping that means someone, somewhere has gotten it working on some > version of *nix. It should mean that. However, I don't know the HP printer model number scheme. Could it be that the same printer model number is being used on a serial port? > > 2) you need to fix the ulpt driver to recognize > > it. > How would I 'fix' this driver? I've tried deleting the ulpt0 device > and running MAKEDEV again, but it still give me the same error. You have to change the C code to for the ulpt driver to recognize the printer. If you're not a programmer, you probably want to post a PR about it. If you are a programmer but haven't done any BSD kernel work, it'll be a bit of work to do this, but it is possible. <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
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