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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 2002 17:41:49 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Epson Stylus Color installation problem
Message-ID:  <20021117174149.GB21838@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <3DD7D3E2.6050003@wanadoo.fr>
References:  <bulk.31001.20021113005629@hub.freebsd.org> <p05111700b9f8149ab5ec@[192.168.1.100]> <20021115060725.GD69109@freebsd.tekrealm.net> <3DD6B062.1000302@wanadoo.fr> <20021116205256.GA24260@tp.databus.com> <3DD6C6D9.5060102@wanadoo.fr> <3DD7D3E2.6050003@wanadoo.fr>

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:37:38PM +0100, hymette@wanadoo.fr wrote:
> I did not see any recommendation in the Handbook to set up 
> communication mode with usb printers. When I run lptcontrol ... the 
> answer is "ioctl : Operation  not supported by the device". Is it normal 
> ? Is there anything to change in the kernel to set the mode to polled or 
> interrupt ?

See the ppbus(4), ppi(4) and ppc(4) man pages.  The ability to change
mode on the parallel bus is a feature of certain chipsets and may not
be available on your hardware --- for instance my Asus A7V266
motherboard only supports NIBBLE mode:

    % grep ppc /var/run/dmesg.boot
    ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
    ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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