Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 12:35:23 -0700 From: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> To: ticso@cicely.de, Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB support for new HP printers? Message-ID: <200212021235.23537.john@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20021202121358.GI58609@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <200208252336.15970.john@jnielsen.net> <20021202121358.GI58609@cicely8.cicely.de>
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On Monday 02 December 2002 05:13, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 11:36:15PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > > Are there plans to add USB support for HP's newer printers to FreeBSD= ? > > Specificially, the OfficeJets and the LaserJet 1200? They use a > > new/different/broken USB interface so they're just recognized as ugen > > devices at the moment.. > > Can you tell details about the difference? Not really. Pretty much everything I know I learned from corresponding w= ith=20 David Paschal on the hpoj-devel mailing list (see hpoj.sourceforge.net). = =20 If Geocrawler ever comes back up today you can browse the list. See the=20 thread "FreeBSD howto?" starting August 26 2002. Here is a quote from Mr= =2E=20 Paschal in one of those e-mails: "Hi, John. The LaserJet 1200 advertises several alternate settings for t= he printer-class interface: 7/1/3 (for IEEE 1284.4 packets, the "new and different USB interface" you mentioned), 7/1/2 (bidirectional raw print data), and 7/1/1 (unidirectional raw print data). If you can somehow convince the ulpt driver to bind to 7/1/2 or 7/1/1 rather than just blind= ly binding to the first alternate setting it finds, then that should be all = you need." The above quote is in reference to getting printing (and only printing) t= o=20 work on an LJ 1200. For full functionality, you'd need to do a bit more.= =20 I think the hpoj project was leaning towards a cross-platform userland=20 solution (hack?) rather than doing kernel mods on several different=20 platforms. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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