Hi,

Stephen J. Gowdy said:
> What is the speed of your network?

:-)

The spool file is stored locally on the server before it's pushed to the
printer. So we're not talking about network speed.

Martin

P.S. It's 100MB

> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, [iso-8859-1] Martin Djernæs wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> First I have to say that this is my first ever venue into Linux USB, so
>> I might ask rather stupid sounding questions.
>>
>> Also let me start from the top explaning my problem / question.
>>
>> I have an USB 2.0 printer (Canon i960), which is very fast printing via
>> USB 2.0 directly from Windows. I have now installed that one on my Linux
>> machine and exported as a raw printer via cups and Samba to the Windows
>> clients.
>>
>> First I installed it as a USB 1.1 device, since my Linux machine didn't
>> have an USB 2.0 controller. That worked fine, but I wanted to get the
>> speed back.
>>
>> So I bought an USB 2.0 controller, which also can be used to print but I
>> still don't have the speed of direct Windows printing.
>>
>> So now I'm wondering if I can do something.
>>
>> The system is vanilla RH9 (kernel 2.4.20-8).
>>
>> The controller is a VIA controller:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb]# lspci -v | grep HCI
>> 00:01.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
>> (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>> 00:0c.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) (prog-if 00
>> [UHCI])
>> 00:0c.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 50) (prog-if 00
>> [UHCI])
>> 00:0c.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) (prog-if
>> 20 [EHCI])
>>
>> I did load the ehci-hcd module:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb]# lsmod | grep hci
>> ehci-hcd               18472   0  (unused)
>> usbcore                73088   1  [printer hid ehci-hcd]
>>
>> Usbtree (found on the website) shows USB2:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ./usbtree
>> /:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub,
>> Driver=ehci-hcd/4p, 480M
>>     |__ Port 2: Dev 2, If 0,
>> Class=print, Driver=usblp, 480M
>>
>> The usb devices also see the right things:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] usb]# more devices
>> T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 4
>> B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
>> D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
>> P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.04
>> S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.4.20-8 ehci-hcd
>> S:  Product=VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
>> S:  SerialNumber=00:0c.2
>> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
>> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
>> E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=256ms
>> T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
>> D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
>> P:  Vendor=04a9 ProdID=1088 Rev= 1.05
>> S:  Manufacturer=Canon
>> S:  Product=i960
>> S:  SerialNumber=4128ee
>> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
>> I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=07(print) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usblp
>> E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=125us
>> E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
>>
>>
>> But my print speed is the same with USB 1.1 and 2.0!
>>
>> Any idea what I do wrong / could do to improove the speed.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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