On Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:22:33 AM Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
On Friday, July 15, 2011 11:37:42 PM Karl-Heinz tm wrote:
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From: constant@indo.net.id To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Printer USB connection problem Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 22:50:58 +0700
I take this as indication that everything is correctly recognised except that the printer information itself is not passed over the adapter. usblp is taking care of the device, (you may wish to double-check by typing "lsmod | grep usblp" (without the quotes) in the terminal as root). You may also want to double-ckeck if /dev/usb/lp0 exists.
lsmod | grep usblp gives: 17833 0
There is no /dev/usb/ anywhere available. Do not know why and if this should be the problem.
In the meantime /dev/usb and /dev/usb/lp0 have shon up
The following is what I know has helped other people after changing printer / printer configuration (though not related to a USB/Parallel adapter). I too had to go through similar steps in order to get my usb printer hooked onto a HP print server up and running.
(1) Type localhost:631 into the address line of your browser to start cups web interface. If it asks for username/password just type root and your respective password.
(2) press "Administration" and then "manage printers", if you see a printer (your old config), remove it completely, close the browser and restart cups by typing rccups restart as root in the terminal. If it does not show a printer, you may skip this step.
(3) go again in cups as in step 1, klick "Administration" and then "add printer". It should now offer you to add a USB printer. You will have to fill in the model information and possibly need to select a driver, depending on you model.
Hope this helps. If not, I'm afraid we're gonna need help from people who know more about cups than I do.
Will do above after a nights sleep and see if it would work. There are for the moment no old printers in cups so there is nothing to remove ;).
Neither cups nor Yast found any trace of an USB printer. Will have a closer look into cups manual and online help. Hope to find there some clues ;( -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-rc4-2-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) 15:48pm up 0:41, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.23, 0.23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org