At 11:31 AM -0400 10/19/01, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
>"Henry B. Hotz" <hbhotz@oxy.edu> writes:
>
>>  The other way I could connect the printer is via USB.  When I plug it
>>  in it gets recognized as ugen0, not ulpt0.  Can't cat to /dev/ugen0 so
>>  I figure it's hopeless to try that in /etc/printcap.
>>
>>  I'm running NetBSD 1.5.1.  Would 1.5.2 or -current make a difference?
>
>I have one of these printers. I have a very small patch to ulpt.c
>that makes it recognize the printer; I've been using it for months. I
>have just committed it to -current (revision 1.43 of
>src/sys/dev/usb/ulpt.c).

Thanks for the suggestion.  This file should back-port to 1.5.1 OK? 
I presume this would be much preferred to using the polling lpa0 
device.
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