USB Printer quirks

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 04/14/13 00:45, Joshua Isom wrote:
> I've got my printer to finally work, now that I got around to hooking it
> up again and trying.  It's a Kodak AiO, and there's a driver that's been
> around for a few years and works under Linux.  It doesn't work properly
> under FreeBSD, or a Debian/kFreeBSD jail, but does work under a Linux
> jail.  With FreeBSD, the best I'd get is one document and then need to
> power cycle the printer to get it to do anything.  From what I remember
> of the logs, the communication wasn't coming back properly.  Cups is
> reporting it's not getting bidirectional communication, but it is mostly
> printing properly.
>
> Since it works under the Linux jail, and not the Debian jail, I'm
> assuming it has to be a FreeBSD kernel issue that's masked by the Linux
> overhead.  But where would I begin to troubleshoot the underlying issue?
>   Right now I'm running a -CURRENT kernel:
>
> FreeBSD jri.homeunix.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #15 r249169M:
> Fri Apr  5 16:12:04 CDT 2013
> root at jri.homeunix.com:/usr/obj/root/ATH/head/sys/ATH  amd64
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Hi,

What does dmesg say about your printer.

Is cups hooked up the correct /dev/uxxx device ?

--HPS