Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 14:56:25 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Anton Galitch <anton.galitch@gmail.com>, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work? Message-ID: <200705151456.25685.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20070515174417.GA58412@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <7c80322b0705150951t78bb77edk5e3259de80942ee8@mail.gmail.com> <20070515174417.GA58412@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:44:17 pm Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: > > Hi > > I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups, > > then gutenprint. > > When configuring the printer in kde control center it detected the > > driver for stylus cx4700 and a device was /dev/ulpt0 (its has a usb > > connection). After doing that I wanted to test it, but it couldnt print > > anything. neither it can give me information about ink level. It says > > "Device is busy". > > One thing to check for are the permissions of the device file > /dev/ulpt0. Cups needs to be able to read from and write to this device, > so you should add an entry for it to /etc/devfs.rules. It should _not_ > be in /etc/devfs.conf, since usb devices can appear at runtime. > > (The first line is only needed when you haven't already got a ruleset > name.) > > [foo=10] > add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups > > And in /etc/rc.conf you should add: > > devfs_system_ruleset="foo" > > Hope this helps. > > Roland Alternatively, just put this in /etc/devfs.conf: own ulpt0 root:cups perm ulpt0 0664 That's all I had to do to get my cx4800 printing with ulpt and cups. FYI, the cardreader on my cx4800 works when ulpt is NOT loaded or in the kernel but umass is. Similarly, the scanner only works when neither ulpt nor umass is loaded or in the kernel. It doesn't attach to uscanner but it works with libusb. JN
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