Force ugen device for printer?

Anish Mistry mistry.7 at osu.edu
Fri Jun 30 00:55:34 UTC 2006


On Thursday 29 June 2006 16:01, Christian Schade wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can I force my system (6.1-STABLE) to create a ugen device for
> my printer?
>
> My printer, a HP PSC 1610 is recognized as a ulpt device and the
> cardreader on it as umass. Printing on the ultp device works fine,
> but I cannot use the scanner function with sane. I tried the hplip
> driver (/usr/ports/printing/hplip) to solve the scanning problem,
> but it only works on ugen devices. When I kldunload the ulpt and
> umass modules from my kernel before connecting the printer, it
> creates a ugen device and everything works fine.
I'm working on enhancing the relability of the hpiod interaction, but 
I am running low on time right now.

>
> My problem is, that I need at least the umass module for USB sticks
> and my external harddisk. So my question is, can I configure devd
> or something else to not create a ulpt and umass device for my
> printer but create a ugen device (maybe by matching the vendor ID
> of the printer)?
So if you don't kldload ulpt, but kldload umass you don't get some 
ugen endpoints and a umass device?  Would you provide a the output 
of "usbdevs -vvv".

Thanks,

-- 
Anish Mistry
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