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from: Franklin
date: 2004-05-25 01:50:48
subject: Re: USB to parallel printing

--- "Don{ald} O. Woodall"  wrote:
> In , on 05/23/2004 
>    at 02:38 PM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:
> 
> >In , on 05/23/04 
> >   at 04:09 PM, xe22{at}optonline.net said:
> 
> >>Have you tried any other USB device such as a mouse on the USB port
> to
> >>verify this is not a port/hardware problem?
> 
> >Yes.  I have a key drive - in fact used it this morning.  I've also
> >reinstalled my base USB drivers, and the usb printer driver, and
> have
> >turned off USB 2.0 in the BIOS.
> 
> Hi Guys
> 
>         FYI
> 
>                The name of this file is: which-usbmon
> 
> FIRST MESSAGE
> -------------
> Path: news.consultron.ca!news!not-for-mail
> From: "Chuck McKinnis" 
> Newsgroups: ecomstation.support.install
> Subject: Re: USB Printer
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:28:55 GMT
> User-Agent: ProNews/2 V1.53.cp050
> 
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:01:58 UTC, nospam{at}redshift.com wrote:
> 
> > In , on 11/26/03
> 
> >    at 12:38 AM, "Chuck McKinnis"
 said:
> > 
> > >Two items.  Did you install the USB port driver?  Is the USB print
> 
> > >monitor in your startup folder?
> > 
> > Good questions, but yes on both counts. It is the port driver that
> reports
> > OFFLINE (DETACHED). Don't know how to get any useful info from the
> print
> > monitor however.
> 
> In their infinite wisdom, IBM has put out two modules named
> USBMON.EXE.
> One is for the printer and one is for removable media.  The printer
> one 
> should have gotten installed in \OS2:
> 
> 7-07-00   6:58p     20105           0  USBMON.EXE
> 
> This one should be in the startup folder and executes with a parm of 
> USBPRT.
> 
> The removable media one should have gotten installed in \OS2\BOOT:
> 
> 9-30-03   1:57p     51233           0  USBMON.EXE
> 
> This one is also in the startup folder and does not have any parms.

This is how it is in my startup folder. I have removeable drives set up
(7 in one flash card reader/floppy drive) and no usb printer. The
removeable usbmon.exe shows active, and the printer usbmon won't stay
running. Does it stay active if it finds a usb printer?

Franklin

> Chuck McKinnis
> IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
> http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/
> 
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> SECOND MESSAGE
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> 
> Path: news.consultron.ca!news!not-for-mail
> From: "Chuck McKinnis" 
> Newsgroups: ecomstation.support.hardware
> Subject: Re: USBMON for mass storage devices
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:37:09 GMT
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> 
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 06:09:53 UTC, Keith Marjerison 
>  wrote:
> 
> > Chuck McKinnis wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 00:43:46 UTC, Keith Marjerison 
> > >  wrote:
> > > 
> > > From the readme:
> > > 
> > > 2.2.5 If the previous steps were competed without errors, change
> > >       directory by typing "cd \os2\boot" at the OS/2 command
> prompt. 
> > >       Then type "usbicon" to install the removable device
> monitoring 
> > > utility
> > >       icon in the OS/2 startup folder. If you don't want to
> activate the
> > >       removable device monitoring utility, you can skip this
> step.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>Hello All;
> > >>	When I 1st installed USB support there was a
"Removable Device
> Monitor 
> > >>V1.1" object in the 'Startup' folder, and when a
removable device
> was 
> > >>plugged in a popup would open and say the "x"
drive has been
> attached. 
> > >>This no longer happens. I did not check its settings, and
> somewhere 
> > >>along the way it disappearded from there.
> > >>	Can someone tell me what their "Removable Device
Monitor" object
> 
> > >>settings are?
> > >>Thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Hi Chuck;
> > 	I tried that and it creates the object but there are no settings
> in the 
> > Paramaters field on the 'Program' page in the 'Properties'
> notebook, and 
> > it does not detect anything when a device is inserted.
> 
> All mine has is:
> 
> Program -  C:\OS2\BOOT\USBMON.EXE
> Working directory - C:\OS2\BOOT
> 
> Beware.  The USB monitor for printers has the same name, USBMON.EXE,
> but
> it should be in \OS2.  They really should be one monitor with
> different 
> parms or two programs with different names or something, but I didn't
> 
> write the code.
> 
> -- 
> Chuck McKinnis
> Covenant Solutions
> http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/
> 



	
		
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