Hi,

I'm trying to get my wifes Compaq A1500 USB printer working under NetBSD.
When she used to have WinMe on the computer (before it self destructed)
I used to print via samba to it using the cdj550 ghostscript driver.

The system is:

NetBSD 1.6ZI (GENERIC) #0: Thu Feb  5 18:09:52 UTC 2004
        cyber@tgm.netbsd.org:/autobuild/HEAD/i386/OBJ/autobuild/HEAD/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

The various bits of dmesg output related to the printer are:

pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok

ohci0 at pci0 dev 1 function 2: Silicon Integrated System 5597/5598 USB host controller (rev. 0x07)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 9
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support

usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0

uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: Silicon Integra OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered

ulpt0 at uhub0 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0
ulpt0: Compaq Corporation Compaq A1500, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode

My /etc/printcap entry looks like:
lp|pastry|cdj550;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
    :lp=/dev/ulpn0:\
    :if=/usr/pkg/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:

and the apsfilterrc looks like
PRINTER='cdj550'
PAPERSIZE='letter'
METHOD='auto'
QUALITY='medium'
COLOR='full'
RESOLUTION='300x300'

I've tried both ulpn0 and ulpt0.  In either case, I print via 'lpr /etc/printcap' as a test
page and lpq shows that its been spooled, but nothing happens at the printer.  So then
I tried running

  a2ps -o - /etc/printcap | gs -q -sDEVICE=cdj550 -r300x300 -sOutputFile=/tmp/foo.dj - -c quit

and then

  cat /tmp/foo.dj > /dev/ulpn0

nothing happened.  So then I tried

  cat /tmp/foo.dj > /dev/ulpt0

and the machine wedged hard.  No response from the keyboard, no response to pings
over the network.  Power cycling the printer didn't unwedge.

Any suggestions?  I'd really like to see this printer work as its much faster than
my tired old gcc technologies 10 year old laser printer.

Thanks

-Dan


--