Current - USB2 - cups and u[n]lpt devices.

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Sat Feb 28 10:01:01 PST 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:57:33AM -0600, eculp wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Thompson <thompsa at FreeBSD.org>:
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:10:37AM -0600, eculp wrote:
>>> I just rebooted my laptop that I have today's USB2 hopefully with the
>>> latest USB compatibility, if I understood the GENERIC kernel correctly.
>>> I'm using i386 version, up to date as of this morning.  Ports are
>>> completely up to date.  all etc/dev* stuff is as it was with USB1.
>>> 
>>> From the dmesg I get:
>>> 
>>> +ugen0.2: <EPSON> at usbus0
>>> +ulpt0: <USB2.0 Printer> on usbus0
>>> +ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
>>> +Symlink: ulpt0 -> usb0.2.1.16
>>> +Symlink: unlpt0 -> usb0.2.1.17
>>> 
>>> With localhost:631 I see Unable to open device file "/dev/ulpt0": Operation
>>> not permitted.  Probably because, there ain't none.  Is there something
>>> else that I need to do that I didn't do before?
>>> 
>>> This isn't critical.  I probably print only a few pages a week but I do
>>> want it to work when something is critical.
>> 
>> Im working on a patch (from Rink) to create proper device nodes, should
>> be ready shortly.
> 
> I'm just curious.  Has this patch been committed yet?

Yes, it was yesterday.


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