[PARPORT] ieee1284 nibble mode, device_id


Andree Borrmann (A.Borrmann@tu-bs.de)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:45:12 +0100 (CET)


Hi,

I followed the discussion about ieee1284 nibble mode here a while.

I knew my printer (Minolta PagePro 6L) must identify itself somehow because
windows is able to detect (and name) it.

But parport_probe fails with the same problems Andrea reported.
So I had a look at Andrea's patch and disabled the "error line indicates end of
data" check in parport_ieee1284_read_nibble and, voila it worked.

But also the idlen in parport_probe is calculated wrong. We don't need to
substract 2 because the idlen does not include the two idlen bytes...

With these two changes parport_probe works here.
 
I get not status readback from the printer with cat dev/lp0 but I think that's
because the printer does not support it...

Bye,
Andree

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