Hello, On Oct 24 12:17 Roger Oberholtzer wrote (shortened):
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 08:18 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Oct 23 20:26 Roger Oberholtzer wrote (shortened):
... I decided to try a USB to parallel cable. ... ... have a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1 ... I see the report is for SUSE 10.2. It worked for me with 10.3. So, maybe it was fixed? I cannot say anything about 11.0.
How should CUPS (or whatever software on the computer) be fixed when the root cause of the problem in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219 is that the USB to parallel cable there did not report the connected printer as a USB printer? If the cable reports it as a USB printer, the software on the computer where the stuff is connected to via USB will detect is as USB printer and then everything can work out of the box. If the cable is dumb, how could any software on the computer detect what there is connected at the other end of the cable? In this case the workaround described in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1 should usually help but I guess there are totally broken USB to parallel cables out there where only a special driver software only for whatever special operating system would make such totally broken USB to parallel cables work. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org