On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Nathan Coulson <conat...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
I believe that's just a matter of linking it to the current libusb library. (previously it used the old API libusb.) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
