[ale] USB Parallel Support

[Dunlap, Randy]

The 2.2.x backport patch does not include support for
the printer cable driver.  It uses the 2.3/2.4 parport
device interface, which is not supported in 2.2.

Quote from http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/:
The patches included here make only minimal changes to the v2.4 USB tree,
to make sure no bugs are introduced by the backport if
possible. This also means that because the parport stuff in
v2.2 and v2.4 is wildly different, that the uss720.c module wasn't
backported and thus isn't included in the backport.


~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fulton Green [mailto:me at FultonGreen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 7:31 AM
> To: Chris Fowler
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] USB Parallel Support
> 
> 
> It will *probably* work. There's generic support for USB 
> printers in the
> 2.4.0-test kernel. It also has support for USB-to-parallel 
> cables using the
> Lucent USS-720 chip. However, the notes say that if you're 
> using a cable
> based on that chip to hook up a printer, to NOT compile it in 
> as the chip
> has an "automatic" operational mode to make the 
> USB-to-parallel conversion > more transparent.
> 
> If you're not too keen on dealing with development code (which at this
> point is actually quite useable), there should be some 
> backport patches
> available for the latest production kernel (2.2.17?) that 
> provide the above > caps.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:41:04AM -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > I just purchased a USB -> Parallel Cable for my printer.  
> Will this work in
> > Linux.  I bought it for W2K but the ability to buy this 
> opens up a door of
> > possibilities for mass printing.  I would rather do mass 
> printing on Linux > > than W2K.
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