I'm printing some labels on a Zebra TLP-2844 printer, and have been doing it fine on Windows by sending the EPL instructions to the shared USB printer as follows:
type Label.prn > \my-pc\zebra
and it seems to work with serial ports too, with
type Label.prn > COM1
Now I'm trying to to the same on Linux, but it's getting really hard! My first guess was:
cat Label.prn | /dev/bus/usb/005/002
since my printer is on bus 005, device 002 (checked it with lsusb command) but it doesn't work at all, as I get the following:
bash: /dev/bus/usb/005/002: Permission denied
Any guesses?
The command you did
cat Label.prn | /dev/bus/usb/005/002
will try to run /dev/bus/usb/005/002, which is not executable, hence "permission denied".
The correct command would be, similar to windows
cat Label.prn > /dev/bus/usb/005/002
However, not sure if you actually can write anything to a printer like that in linux. If the printer is set up properly, you might also try:
lpr Label.prn
In case anyone else is trying to access raw USB printer ports; The "permission denied" problem is circumvented by adding your user to group "lp", like so:
$ sudo usermod -aG lp USERNAME
where USERNAME is your username.
Sorry by My english.
I tested here, my printer TLP2844 connect on USB, in my embedded arm9 board with linux.
I typed in command prompt:
printf "OD\r\nN\r\nD5\r\nS2\r\nZT\r\nQ128, 24\r\nq400\r\nA15,10,0,2,1,1,N,\"TESTE\"\r\nP1\r\nFE\r\n" > /dev/lp0
and... the TEST printed
You should change access mode for /dev/usb/lp0 device: sudo chmod a+w /dev/usb/lp0
And then you can print a label using copy command: cp test.zpl /dev/usb/lp0
Also you can create your own build system in Sublime Text for example:
{
"cmd": ["cp", "$file", "/dev/usb/lp0"],
"encoding": "utf8"
}
and send files to the printer by pressing Ctrl+B keys immediately after finishing edit the label.
Or you can try my tool to send zpl labels to the printer via TCP/IP:
https://github.com/kashamalasha/AutoIt_ZebraTester
It was written on AutoIt Script language, so you need to install AutoIt to build it. Unfortunately there is no description on English, only Russian, but I can write it very soon, if you will need it.
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I everybody
after boot if is possible i want to open a shell and run a simple c++ program automatically ! its difficult ?
airone#airone:~$ sudo ./provaccc
[sudo] password for airone:
Reading From : /dev/input/event2 (Sycreader RFID Technology Co., Ltd SYC ID&IC USB Reader)
Ingresso Palestra: SUCCESS
its possible ?
thanks a lot
Well, you can always include it in some of the common "starters", most probably in ~/.bashrc. The one single important thing would be to suppress the stdout prior to putting it over there. You have to adjust its permissions as well, in order not to be asked for the sudo password. With the limited information I have, I presume it should be something like:
chown <user>:<group> airone
chmod 755 provaccc
echo 'bash <full path>/provaccc' > /dev/null >> ~./bashrc
Test it with sourcing ~/.bashrc:
source ~/.bashrc
Of course there could be multiple adjustments, but I am sure you can work these out.
I have software for communicating with a serial device that only runs on Windows 7. My host machine is running Ubuntu 16.04, with Windows 7 in virtual box.
I've managed to set it up using USB device filters in VirtualBox settings so that Windows sees and can communicate with the device.
However I'd like to capture what's being sent to and from the device. I thought something as simple as cat /dev/ttyUSB0 would work but unfortunately when I start VirtualBox I get this in dmesg:
[31199.465270] vboxdrv: ffffffffc0df4020 VMMR0.r0
[31199.653494] vboxdrv: ffffffffc0ef7020 VBoxDDR0.r0
[31199.710573] VBoxNetFlt: attached to 'wlp1s0' / 98:54:1b:04:13:48
[31199.863579] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[31199.863674] ftdi_sio 1-3:1.0: device disconnected
So I don't know which file to monitor in /dev anymore. I suppose I might be able to try listen for the communication from Windows, but if I can I'd like to know if it's possible to monitor it from my host machine.
Edit:
This answer helped me for a start. I now get some cool looking stream on the terminal, next step is deciphering it, or if anyone has a better way I'm interested - it looks like the person who answered that question still has deciphering it as a TODO :-)
The fact that it was communicating with software in VirtualBox didn't really matter. This answer got me most of the way just by (as root):
modprobe usbmon
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices|less and search for device
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/7u where 7 is the number from "Bus=" in the device table from step 2
From there is was just filtering the output.
A basic way could be just
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/1u |cut -d\ -f9- | grep ^\n
But the device I was working with was constantly sending lines with just 4 characters, to filter out those I got the address word from the output line, and grepped for that. In my case I only wanted to capture "C" or callback output. I was also filtering for lines that contained more than just the default "0160" that the device was constantly outputting. To try understand the hex output I put a xxd -r -p at the end which gave me:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/usb/usbmon/1u | grep -e 'C Bi:1:005:1\s0\s\w*\s=\s0160\w' | cut -d\ -f8- | xxd -r
Where the grep is
grep -e 'C <address> <someotherstuff> = <always-output-string><anycharacter>
This still gave me this indecipherable junk below, but I don't know the format so I'm stuck here. Maybe the steps to read and filter will be useful for someone
>
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;�����C��Af[���RSC�b ISD�EGIN
�CG_IEW0321:0407JUN12S��Z-�$''$'''C'''
I am start learning Linux(CentOs 5.5 kernel 2.6.35.13).
When I try to install a usb wifi stick(TP-Link TL-WN823N,and "lsusb" will show ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp..)
It work fine in the window interface( ctrl+shift+F7).
But when I shift to the command window(ctrl+shift+F1),and try to start wifi connection by
wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
I found it kept print logs to screen before I type the command above.
I use
ps axjf |grep wpa_supplicant
to list all related process and find
there is a process start by user "dbus" with the command
/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -u -f /var/log/wpa_supplicant.log
I dont know whether is this dbus' command that lead the problem.
Below is the screen shot.
kept logging msg:(
Partly fix the problem.
There are two things that make the wifi information keep on loging on the screen.
First, if you use NetworkManager, it will automate run the command under /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant, where you can find the default command write there has no -B parameter which will keep the log in the background.So you can either add an -B to that command or stop NetworkManager and start wifi connection with your own command like in the question.
Second, when you install the driver, the default run status is power saving mode, so when you transfer data with wifi, you can see the screen keeping log infomation like "get into the pw_saving","get out pw_saving" etc.
To fix this, you can shut down the power saving mode like this:
create a file /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf with the following contents:
options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0
Or you can rewrite driver code to stop print the info to screen, which I still don't know how to do.
I am trying to access a device which is attached to a USB-serial port. The settings are 57600 baud, 8 bit, 1 stop bit, no parity. The device outputs a status line every second and accepts typed commands.
I would like to use GNU screen to initiate 2 way communications, so I am using this command:
screen /dev/ttyS2 57600,cs8
However I just get a blank screen, nothing received from the device.
The communication is fine using teraterm, and I can also do this
stty -F /dev/ttyS2 57600 cs8
cat /dev/ttyS2
to see the status output from the device.
I've tried various combinations of ixon, ixoff, crtscts, and clocal but nothing makes any difference.
How can I determine what the correct command should be?
I am using Cygwin on Windows 10.
I faced the same issue with gnu-screen, I started using plink.exe instead from the PuTTY suite. It's not optimal, but it does the job. In my case serial is just for recovery, not for everyday usage.
Start PuTTY, create a profile with your serial connection.
Name and save the connection.
From cygwin, run: '/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/PuTTY/plink.exe -load SerialProfile'
I need to build a simple web based printer server that will print a file to any given printers IP address
Using lp or lpr how can I print a file directly to a network printer by IP address? NOTE: The printer will NOT be setup in CUPS locally as it needs to have the ability to print to any IP address thrown at it.
What I have tried:
lp -d 10.11.234.75 /path/to/file
lpr -P 10.11.234.75 /path/to/file
Both give this: 'The printer or class does not exist.'
Try this:
cat you_file.prn | netcat -w 1 printer_ip 9100
If using bash then:
cat /path/to/file > /dev/tcp/10.11.234.75/9100
What you want to do is probably not feasible. If the printers at the ends of these IP addresses are just random printers, then the server you're building would need to know which driver to use to be able to print to them. If you haven't installed them in any way beforehand then it's not going to work.
If you only want to talk to other Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) servers then it is possible, although not necessarily elegant. I don't know of any other Linux implementations of an IPP client than CUPS, and CUPS requires you to install printers in advance. This can be done very easily though (as explained here). It's the same code to add a normal printer (but you need to know which driver to use) as for an IPP server. Alternatively, you might be able to find another IPP implementation (or write one - it should be fairly simple just to send a document) which doesn't require installing printers.
Here's the code to add an IPP printer to CUPS:
lpadmin -E -p <printer-name> -v http://<ip_address>:631/<dir>/<printer> -L <location> -E
<printer-name> and <location> can be whatever you like, and you need the full network path to the printer.
To add a normal printer:
lpadmin -E -p <printer-name> -v <device-uri> -m <model> -L <location> -E
This is the same, except that you need to give a <model>, which is the driver for the printer. Scrap the first -E if you don't want encryption.
If you want to delete the printer afterwards, use this:
lpadmin -x <printer-name>
I found an old program called tcpsend.c to send a file to a printer at an IP address. Build with gcc -o tcpsend tcpsend.c
$ ./tcpsend
use: tcpsend [-t timeout] host port [files]
-t timeout - try connecting for timeout seconds
tcpsend.c source code
I had success using lp with a hostname and port.
echo foobar | lp -h 10.10.13.37:9100 -
Without specifying a port, i would get
lp: Error - No default destination
If printing a PDF, you can first convert it to PostScript using pdf2ps
pdf2ps file.pdf - | lp -h 10.10.13.37:9100 -
The argument - is used as an alias for standard input or output, letting us pipe the output of postscript straight into standard input of lp.