Hi, In fact this (http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb) is a full USB driver for DOS, with both UHCI and OHCI.
It has drivers for Parlel and Serial devices, plus pendrive. Unfortunately it is only free for personal use... Alain iw2evk escreveu: > For solve the problem you can download the free software dosusb > > http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/dosusb.zip > > > in the package are insert some utlities for printing via usb port on > DOS > see for documentation : > > > 3.1 Printer driver > > > There are two printer drivers available. LPT1USB.SYS installs as a > LPT1: device > while PRNUSB.SYS installs as the PRNUSB: device. So you with the > latter driver > you can use LPT1: for other printers if needed, while with LPT1USB.SYS > you can > print from the DOS Editor or other application programs directly. > > > Both are printer device drivers which use DosUSB to print to USB > printers. They will > work with a HP 2420d Laserprinter, a HP 880C, a HP 5940 and a HP 460C > inkjet > printer. They will also work with parallel to USB adapters. Check the > endpoints and > use the setalt utility to set the interface before printing here. > > > LPT1USB.SYS and PRNUSB.SYS are loaded with a "device=" statement in > the > config.sys file or with the DEVLOAD utility. Load DosUSB then, do not > use the /L > command line option here! The default device address is one, the > default device > endpoint is two. Use the command line options e.g. /D2 /E1 to select > device address > two and endpoint number one. Use USBView to determine the right > settings for your > printer. > > > These drivers cannot be used with low cost GDI printers, since these > do not accept > ASCII code for printing. They expect data which controls their print > head directly. > This protocol is vendor specific and usually not available. If a > printer accepts ASCII > code via its parallel interface, it usually can also do this via its > USB interface. > Use "type dosusb.txt > lpt1" or "type dosusb.txt > prnusb" to print > the file dosusb.txt > from the DOS prompt. Or open "lpt1" or "prnusb" as a file in your > application program > > > > > Michael Potter-4 wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have googled and googled and googled this question and have not found an >> easy answer. That is strange because this seems like something that would >> be a common problem. >> >> I have an old DBase application that I am reviving to run under FreeDOS. >> It >> prints to a parallel printer when running on real hw, but when running in >> FreeDOS in VirtualBox I want it to print to a USB printer. >> >> What is the best way to do that? >> >> The printer shows up in the Devices->USB menu in Virtual box. >> >> Here is the advise I received from a friend how to do it under DOS running >> within XP: >> a) Setup the printer in Windows, then SHARE the printer. Then in DOS, >> one >> can do this: >> b) NET USE lpt1: \\windowspc\printershare >> >> What would be the equivalent of that in FreeDOS? >> >> -- >> Michael Potter >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge >> This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, >> vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have >> the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full >> prize >> details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
