Package: hotplug Version: 0.0.20040329-25 Severity: normal Hello
Today it took me two hours to connect my Epson printer to a Debian Sarge host although it had been running fine for weeks on a Debian Sid one. All the time the entry was present in lsusb (kernel 2.6.x and 2.4.x), hotplug loaded usblp but printconf and cups somehow failed to "realize" this printer always timeing out or just not showing it. As it turns out the was most probably the fact that /dev/usb/* was not present which could be corrected by running "./MAKEDEV usb". After that the printer was detected as "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C66" and worked fine. So the problem is, if that was the case, which package is to blame? As usbmgr ist more or less superceeded by hotplug I would say that hotplug could at least fix this problem by giving a warning because it is the package which the user expects to detect everything automagically. A simple if [ "`ls /dev/usb/ | wc -l`" -lt "50" ]; then echo "Do 'MAKEDEV usb' in /dev"; exit 1 fi should be enough to help most people. What do you think? bye, -christian- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
