--- XE22  wrote:
> Don{ald} O. Woodall wrote:
> 
> >In , on
> 05/24/2004 
> >   at 10:50 PM, Franklin  said:

> >>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
> >
> >     I do hope you are not asking "ME".
> >
> >     I do no  have, and never have had any USB devices.  That is why
> I
> >made such a verbose posting sighting my sources.

Did I ask you personally? Well, yes and no. You may or may not have an
answer, but I wouldn't know that unless I asked you. I ask in a reply
to you on this forum because one or more out of the many who read this
might have the answer, as in this reply:

> >
> >  
> >
> I have no USB storage devices, so my system runs the USBMON.exe with
> the 
> USBPRT
> parameter only. I had the USB-ethernet adapter working, and 
> still                                                     use a mouse
> 
> and printer. It's dated 7-7-2000 and is the same 20105, in D:\OS2.
> The printer's output port is USB_Printer_1. If Mark can't get another
> 
> printer to
> work I'm still thinking cable. I'm using an Oki Microline 184 turbo
> with 
> incorrect
> drivers.
> 
> Louis

>Mark Abramowitz wrote in another message:

>I have a USB printer here - it works, but it's not the USB to parallel
>cable.  But I *did* purchase another cable, from another manufacturer,

and
>it doesn't work.  The USB resource manager even sees it, and when I 
unplug
>the cable, it goes away.  Plug it in, and it shows.  (though not the 
name
>maufacturer or name of my printer, oddly enough - perhaps it's the
interface manufacturer on the cable?).

And with the rest of the messages today, I have a theory.  The lexmark
parallel printer is bidirectional and must communicate with the driver
on lines other than the data lines in the parallel connection. These
don't make it through the usb-parallel converter, so the pretty much
plug & play Lexmark isn't printing. The Oki microline is not a
plug&play printer, and needs no driver to print. It can also be
controlled through character sequences in the data stream, so it can
still print through the converter. The real USB printer works because
all the ID issues are taken care of by the printer and usb drivers.

Therefore this Lexmark may not work with the usb setup. Someone may
blow this theory out of the water, but for now, I'm sticking with it.

Franklin



	
		
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