On 6 Aug, Frank Mayhar wrote: > On Monday I received my brand-new Epson C82, a replacement for a 900N with > a dead print head. I had already configured CUPS so I imagined that I would > just hook it up with USB and everything would be happy. > > Well, that's not how it turned out. > > I tried two different machines, both with Tyan dual-CPU motherboards. One > is a Thunder 2500 (S1867) with dual PIII 866, my gateway/fax/server > box and the one I preferred. The other is my main desktop box, a Tiger > MPX (2466N-4M) with dual Athlon MP 1900+. Both displayed essentially > the same problem, although the Tiger MPX seemed to come a little bit > closer to working than the Thunder 2500. > > Basically, although usbdevs would show the device, when I tried to do, > say, an 'escputil -s -r /dev/ulpt0' (to show the ink levels), the process > would seem to send something to the printer (I say "seem to" because I > saw no evidence of it on the printer side), then sit in the USB code > forever, timing out and looping.
Unless someone snuck it in while I wasn't looking, our ulpt implementation doesn't support reading data from the printer, so it's not possible to check the ink levels. I've had to boot Linux in order to do this. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"