Re: USB Printer?

On 18/08-03 14.59, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:02:51PM +0200, Daniel Nielsen wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I installed 5.1-RELEASE on a compuiter with a nforce2 mobo, worked
> > nice... Then I bought a Brother-5050 Laser printer
> > (Postscript). Installed and configured cups. cups worked fine. Then I
> > realized, the printer only works if it is turned on before my freebsd
> > boots. 
> > 
> > When I power it up, it is detected by the freebsd usb-system:
> > 
> > zits root # dmesg | grep ulpt
> > ulpt0: Brother HL-5050, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 7/1
> > ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
> > zits root #
> > 
> > And when I turn it off:
> > zits root # dmesg | grep ulpt
> > <snip>
> > ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 3) disconnected
> > ulpt0: detached
> > zits root #
> > 
> > but when I send a job to the printer, the CUPS usb backend just
> > hangs, locking /dev/ulpt0
> > 
> > I tried cat /root/some-file > /dev/ulpt0 , and it also just hangs. 
> 
> /dev/ulpt0 shouldn't exist after ulpt0 was detached.

It doesn't... I wasn't being clear, I only try the cat thing after the
printer is attached and turned on.
 
> > If the printer enters standby after boot, then it also doesn't print,
> > with the same symptoms.
> > 
> > I then tried upgrading to -CURRENT (about a week ago), but it still
> > doesn't work. It works perfectly from Knoppix 3.2 and winXP, so I'm
> > pretty sure it is a freeBSD usb problem. I should also mention, that
> > I'm using a USB mouse, and it works fine even disconnecting and
> > reconnecting after boot.
> 
> That something work with another OS doesn't say anything about that it's
> an OS problem.
> It could also mean that the other OS has a workaround for a broken
> device.

That might be, I'm not an OS expert... Still doesn't change the fact
that it doesn't work in freeBSD though.

/Daniel

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