usb printing problem
Is anyone on debian ppc sid having printing problems with usb printers? I seem to have developed some severe ones with BenH's current kernels. I also now seem to have the same issue with my older kernels so its hard to figure out. My Epson 740i causes hotplug to load the usb/printer.o module and I get... usb.c: registered new driver usblp printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver however I find that lprngtool is unable to print directly to the device and if I do cat /etc/hosts > /dev/usb/lp0 the output is accepted by the device without complaint but nothing happens with the printer. Any one else seeing issues? Jack
Re: usb printing problem
"Jack Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the output is accepted by the device without complaint but > nothing happens with the printer. Any one else seeing issues? I gave up trying to get USB printing working on my pismo. I hooked it up to a windows box and used samba instead. I'd love to get it working, but nothing I tried succeeded. jas.
Re: usb printing problem
Hi, Hope I understood the question right - I'l try to explain how I got USB working for printing. Don't know if there are differences in SID. I've Woody on G4 with benh-2.4.10-kernel, printing with CUPS (which I would recommend - but that's not the topic). On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 08:04:53PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > "Jack Howarth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the output is accepted by the device without complaint but > > nothing happens with the printer. Any one else seeing issues? > I've seen that when USB wasn't configured correctly. What I had to do was the following: 1.)Kernel needed CONFIG_USB and CONFIG_USB_PRINTER. 2.)mkdir /dev/usb/ mknod /dev/usb/usblp0 c 180 0 3.)adding the following line in /etc/fstab a line after the -entry: none /proc/bus/usbusbdevfsdefaults 0 0 That's it. ;-) Hope it helps SY -- M.f.G. Georg Koss mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
