Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:14:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP500 deskjet and 4.X Message-ID: <20001002111434.A12622@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20001002184845.F252@parish>; from marko@freebsd.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:48:45PM %2B0100 References: <200010020111.e921BT301611@thought.org> <20001002184845.F252@parish>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:48:45PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 06:11:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Unless there are other causes -- like bizarre side-effects from > > interrupts -- or something even further out, I'm guessing that > > the reason my deskjet has stopped working recently (in FreeBSD-4.1) > > is a driver or configuration problem. > > > > There were a few postings on -stable not too many weeks back, but > > I can't find them in the archives. > > > > Here is the related dmesg output: > > > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > > ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > > > > I have changed nothing in my KERNEL file from the GENERIC setup; > > can anybody tell me what needs doing to get my old DeskJet-500 > > back to working? > > > > Are you sure? I don't see ppbus. Here's mine. IIRC the only time I _don't_ > see ppbus is if the printer is switched off when I boot (although I can't > be 100% sure; it may report ppbus but, obviously, not the printer's ID > string). > > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE/ECP > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: > ppbus0: <HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C> MLC,PCL,PML > lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0 > lpt0: Interrupt-driven port > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > I'm not 100% sure of many things, but here is what is in my KERNEL file related to the printer port: # Parallel port device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt # Printer device plip # TCP/IP over parallel device ppi # Parallel port interface device #device vpo # Requires scbus and da The ppbus code probably can't tell much about an old DeskJet--that's my hand-waving SWAG;). For now, since I believe the DJ works--it works with a simple ASCII file, I haven't tried anything fancy-- I'm happy. gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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