From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LYlGW-00013O-2Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:58:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DA5AE0417; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (unknown [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96909E0417 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.194.217.12] (souris.genestate.com [10.194.217.12]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB75961A17 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:58:47 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <499857D5.2030509@genestate.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:58:45 +0000 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Should this hardware work? References: <49bf44f10902150903w2e334e56ne91042a468465caa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10902150903w2e334e56ne91042a468465caa@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04d08f66-4802-4646-8d1f-876d4c75bb69 X-Archives-Hash: f566b11b6654942510f94d97da740eb7 Grant wrote: > I'd like to buy a Sipix A6 portable printer for printing boarding > passes on the go since they can be had for around $20. It is said to > work in Linux: > > http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=SiPix-Pocket_Printer_A6 > > but that page only mentions the serial connection and doesn't mention > the infrared connection. If it's working via serial, should it also > work via infrared? If not necessarily, should it definitely work via > a serial->USB adapter that works in Linux? > > - Grant > Don't quote me on this, but in the past when I have used infrared, it used a pseudo serial connection. This should mean that once the infrared connection is established, you should be able to print as if it was a physical serial connection. Of course, getting the IR connection established might be easier said than done. HTH -- Matt Harrison