On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:39 PM, bendeguz <mailinglist...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 06:29:31PM -0400, linux fan wrote: >> On 10/6/10, bendeguz <mailinglist...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Do you have any suggestion? >> >> A careful read of >> http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3357+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M20+Qusblp >> > HPLIP (and soon perhaps more manufacturer-supplied backends) >> > is libusb-based, it grabs the device and takes it away from the >> > usblip-based usb backend of. >> >> Leads me to wonder if non-HP users should compile usbprinter into >> kernel, or as a module to experiment if it works (with option to >> rmmod). >> >> It has always been hard enough to install cups. I don't see that there >> was a need for it to be made more so. >> -- > > sorry boys and girls, but I don't have time for experimenting with this > (and it's not so important for me to get printing working now) > > anyway, thanks for the help > > regards > --
What I read, was that they (cups) changed to a new usb backend, which fails to grab printers. AFAIK, nothing to do specifically w/ the hplip drivers. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: Brittish Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
