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The 'weird' USB port showed up in /var/log/messages - but did not exist despite being freshly configured ?!?
== extract from file == I [07/Mar/2004:22:38:21 +0000] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 5749) for job 1. E [07/Mar/2004:22:38:21 +0000] [Job 1] Unable to open USB device "usb:// Hewlett-Packard0MDL:PSC/2170% 20Series0CMD:MLC,PCL,PML,DW-PCL,DYN;CLS:PRINTER;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SN:MY3 7AD90JF73;S:0380008085021000062c148005dc250005e;AiO:0; %20PSC%202170% 20Series;CMD:MLC,PCL,PML,DW-PCL,DYN;CLS:PRINTER;1284.4DL:4d,4e,1;SN:MY3 7AD90JF73;S:0380008085021000062c148005dc250005e;AiO:0;": No such device === end extract ===
As far as I'm concerned she could better be using Windows - this is the classic printer someone with a small office would use (fax, scanner, copier, colour printer).
Are you using the hpoj driver as well as the ptal stuff? If you are you need to make sure that the ptal processes are started at boot. This stumped me on my last install, just one of those things that fell through the crackes. Ken