From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 21:10: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yoda.bmi.net (yoda.bmi.net [204.57.191.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A55137B401 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (drumheller-router.bmi.net [206.63.201.3] (may be forged)) by yoda.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20381; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:36:42 -0700 Received: from johncoop.MSHOME (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by johncoop.MSHOME (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7D4A4E00522; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:10:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:10:03 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: Jim Freeze Cc: Mike Porter , Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 Message-ID: <20010812211003.C490@johncoop> References: <024501c12393$12e13bc0$0300a8c0@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from jim@freeze.org on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 20:25:56 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7 Lines: 50 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001.08.12 20:25 Jim Freeze wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Mike Porter wrote: > > > is it possible (having looked over your dmesg and Mike Meyer's dmesg > and > > noting no differences in the relevant areas, except the IRQ #) that the > > PCL3/HP500 emulation only works over the parallel port interface? I > guess > > this would tend to be disproved by the fact that it works under OS/2 > without > > the driver. I don't know enough about OS/2 to know if what you are > doing > > really would bypass the driver, I'll take your word for that. Are you > > running OS/2 on the same machine under a dual boot scenario, or is this > two > > > The only real test is to take a file printed on windows for the HP500 > printer. Then, from the bsd os, send that file to the z51 printer (you > choose the port) and see if it prints. I won't say it will not work, but > I > would be surprised if it did. ..I'll tell you why. The chip on the Z51 is > very limited. There is not enough room to have an HP500 translater in the > hardware. The only way it could read HP500 is if the commands were NPA > commands or identical to the lexmark file format. > > I would also like to see a copy of the file. > I can quickly tell you if it is in lexmark format. > > > Also, the port you are sending the file to should not matter. We > 'blasted' > files to lexmark printers from various OS's all the time, both parallel > and USB ports, with no problems. > > Jim > > > ========================================================= > Jim Freeze > jim@freeze.org > --------------------------------------------------------- > No comment at this time. > http://www.freeze.org > ========================================================= > Oh, and the OS/2 is a separate computer. I hate dual booting . . . ;) jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message