[hpoj-devel] HP PSC 1210 with USB on FreeBSD

[Raphael L. <rap...@gm...>]

Hi all,


first: I'm sorry if this problem was already discussed on the list.

second: greetings to all, this is my first post.

third: thanks for all your work


problem description:

About two months ago I got a PSC 1210 and installed this thing on Linux, all 
worked fine without any problems, I was really happy about that :) because I 
didn't have time to find out if the device would work with Linux before I 
bought it.

Recently I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1, hpoj didn't compile out of the box (CVS 
version after 0.91, some weeks/months ago probably). I tweaked some 
system(!!) headers to get it compile and when I run ptal-setup with the 
device attached (syslog tells me that the device IS attached) it doesn't 
autodetect the device. A manual entry in the ptal config directory doesn't do 
the trick either - I get a device not found error by mlcd. Neither printing 
(?) nor scanning works. I wonder why even printing doesn't work but this 
might be due to older hpijs drivers than I had in Linux, I'll probably soon 
update those. (I use CUPS - or "try" to *g*).

I am not sitting at this machine right now so I can't give you details now. 
Also it might be that the combination (FreeBSD, PSC 1210 and USB) is a known 
issue and you don't need all the details. If there is no known solution and 
you would like to have more details I'll be happy to provide these. As much 
as time allows I would like to help solve it, as I have programming skills - 
but not much knowledge about FreeBSD internals yet.


Thanks,

Raphael