Re: [9fans] printing over usb

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

Yes. You might start with -d flags to usbd or issuing a debug ctl
(see the man page) to see what's the error.


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:23 AM, James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I 'solved' the problem by attaching the printer to my apple airport
> express. Now I can print from plan9 using this neat trick I found
> whilst digging in 9fans:
>
> term% cat test.ps | telnet tcp!express.lan!9100
> connected to tcp!express.lan!9100 on /net/tcp/2
>
> I'd still like to be able to directly connect with usb. I will try
> with native plan 9 instead of under vmware fusion and also try a
> different printer to see if I get different results.
>
> Is there some extra extra debugging I can enable to see what's going
> on with the usb devices?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> James Chapman
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:31 AM, James Chapman <james@cs.ioc.ee> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 12:08 AM, franciscojose ballesteros
>> <nemo.mbox@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ep4.0 does not look like the place to send data. It's probably the control ep.
>>> for the printer. IIRC, the driver adds a file named lp something, but I'm not
>>> sure. Try to look at /dev to see if there's a file there.
>>
>> term% du -ah /dev | grep lp
>>
>> yields only this:
>>
>> 1k      /dev/lpt1dlr
>> 1k      /dev/lpt1psr
>> 0       /dev/lpt1pcr
>> 0       /dev/lpt1data
>>
>>> Otherwise it could be something like ep4.1
>>
>> I don't seem to have an ep4.1:
>>
>> term% usb/probe
>> ep1.0 roothub csp 0x000009 ports 2 uhci
>> ep2.0 roothub csp 0x000009 ports 6 ehci
>> ep3.0 hub csp 0x000009 ports 7 none <nil> uhci
>> ep4.0 printer csp 0x030107 csp 0x010107 vid 0x03f0 did 0x1017
>> Hewlett-Packard 'hp LaserJet 1300' uhci
>>
>> James
>>
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