Progress on usb/79524 (printing to Minolta 1300W via /dev/ulpt0)

[Gary Corcoran]

Eugene Rogoza wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:21 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>>In message: <1132156386.875.11.camel at localhost>
>>            Eugene Rogoza <euro at i.com.ua> writes:
>>: Hello everybody,
>>: 
>>: The old issue with 'ulpt' and "device busy" (usb/79524) is slowly moving
>>: towards resolution.
>>: 
>>: A brief history:
>>: 
>>: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-usb/2005-March/000695.html
>>: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-usb/2005-July/001254.html
>>: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-usb/2005-July/001265.html
>>: 
>>: I tried the patch of Mr. M. Warner Losh and voila! No "device busy"
>>: anymore, but when sending a print job, the kernel reports: "ulpt0:
>>: offline", and stays offline, although the printer is turned on.
>>
>>Yes.  The kernel will say that, and then send the print job anyway.
>>Does the job actually print?
> 
> 
> Nope. Should it print after something like:
> 
> echo "Test" > /dev/ulpt0 ?
> 
> Because if the simple tests fail, then the complex ones (ghostscript ->
> PPD -> driver) also fail. But actually I didn't try the whole chain yet.
> 
> 
> 
>>: Is it a somewhat known issue, or should I supply additional debug
>>: information?
>>
>>Yes.  It is telling you your printer is broken :-).  There's no
>>software problem here.  Your printer stupidly reports offline status.
> 
> 
> Then I guess the Windows driver is more "kickass" or simply doesn't care
> whether the printer is online.

Ummmm - aren't the Minolta printers with 'W' in the model number
Windows-only printers?  That is, they depend on a windows driver
for a great deal of their functionality, as I understand it, which
is why they are cheaper than the non-W models...

Gary