Re: [hpoj-devel] hpoj on HP PSC500 Scanner/Copier/Printer

[John S. <xf...@di...>]

David

This is quite a service!

I'm away from the office at the moment and I haven't managed to get the
remote access bits of the new SuSE installation to accept IP addresses,
so I can't dial back in yet.

To much irrelevant information? Probably.

I'll report back as soon as I get a chance to try it.

Thanks

John

  

David Paschal wrote:
> 
> John Simpson wrote:
> > Only problem is, the printer has to be on when the Linux box is
> > switched on otherwise the ieee12844pp module doesn't load. This is a
> > major problem when inexperienced users have control of the system,
> > which in my case is most of the time. Have I missed something? Are
> > there some switches I can pass to the module to force it to load?
> Hi, John.  Please try the attached patch for ieee12844pp.c.  It's a quick
> and dirty hack to remove the annoying requirement that the peripheral be
> connected and powered on when the module is loaded.  I only made sure it
> compiled and didn't actually test it, so I don't know if there will be any
> problems.  It should work, however, and I think the only problem would
> arise if you happened to have multiple parallel ports, in which case
> mlc:mlcpp0 might turn into mlc:mlcpp1.  Let me know how it works out for
> you.
> 
> David
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