On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:06 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:

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.

This would be true assuming you can use such cables only and really only to connect a printer and that the printer would actually identify itself on the Parallel port (there are not to many doing this). But there are as well other usecases than connecting a printer on a parallel port... think about data links (not that common anymore, but still existing). What should a 'smart' cable report in this case? Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org