Naram Qashat wrote this message on Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 09:17 -0500:
> It's been over a week, and I wonder, is this even the correct mailing list
> for this question, or is it just that no one has an answer to it?
You can check on freebsd-usb, as that is where people who are interested
in USB developement hang out...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Naram Qashat" <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
> Cc: <cyberbotx@cyberbotx.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 03:51 PM
> Subject: IEEE1284 Device ID string for USB Printers
>
>
> > I was wondering if there were any plans on getting the ieee1284_print_id()
> > function in src/sys/dev/usb/ulpt.c to work properly. I was trying to see
> > about getting HPLIP converted to FreeBSD, but it's hpiod program requires
> an
> > ioctl to access the printer andget the IEEE1284 device ID string to
> identify
> > the USB printer. Without that ioctl, HPLIP can't be ported over.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Naram Qashat
> >
> > (Note: I'm not subscribed to the mailing list, so if anyone replies to
> this,
> > please CC me to the response. Thanks.)
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