From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 3:27:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D32D37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:27:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from runt.jnielsen.net (12-254-139-131.client.attbi.com [12.254.139.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995643E3B for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 03:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Received: from buff.local (buff [192.168.0.10]) by runt.jnielsen.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7QARFGH003606; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:27:17 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from john@jnielsen.net) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Nielsen To: Marco Molteni Subject: Re: USB support for new HP printers? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:28:34 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <200208252336.15970.john@jnielsen.net> <20020826085142.7961.qmail@cobweb.example.org> In-Reply-To: <20020826085142.7961.qmail@cobweb.example.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208260428.34175.john@jnielsen.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 26 August 2002 02:51, Marco Molteni wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:36:15 -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.. > > have a look at hpoj.sourceforge.net > they plan FreeBSD USB support for a next release I've been all over the site and read some of the docs. The most useful=20 piece of information I found was this: "FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are not yet supported in USB mode, due to=20 missing functionality in the kernel "ulpt" driver (bidirectional I/O,=20 device ID retrieval, switching to 7/1/3, and HP channel-change-request)." The only FreeBSD information in the TODO section has to do with fixing th= e=20 build so it works [better]. I don't get the idea that they are planning to add the missing kernel=20 functionality themselves; they don't seem to have done any of that for=20 Linux--they just list using a supported kernel as a requirement for USB. Since I'm mostly just interested in printing to an LJ 1200, I don't know = if=20 I'd even use the hpoj stuff unless necessary (although it does look=20 interesting). I'm just wondering if kernel support for these beasties is= =20 already being worked on, and where I can get more information. JN To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message