[opensuse] SuSE 10.1 forgets Lexmark USB printer on reboot
As the subject says, my printer stops working after rebooting. It is a Lexmark 5100 and I'm using the Z55 driver. When I install the printer and test it everything seems OK but after rebooting it stops working. Sending the job to print gives no error, the print queue stays empty and nothing gets printed. If I go into Yast, delete then add the printer it starts working again, untill the next reboot. I say "I" but is in fact my dad's system and I have to keep deleting and adding it remotely, over a very slow modem, whenever he wants to print - H E L P! Cosmo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:39, Mr Banana wrote:
When I install the printer and test it everything seems OK but after rebooting it stops working. Sending the job to print gives no error, the print queue stays empty and nothing gets printed. If I go into Yast, delete then add the printer it starts working again, untill the next reboot. Sounds like the CUPS server is not starting at bootup... or, the printer (queue) is not starting at bootup.
Start Suse -> Utilities -> Printing -> Printing Manager Enter Administrator mode. <don't delete and reinstall printer, instead: > 1) Restart the server click print server and then restart 2) Restart the printer right click the printer and then click "start printer" note: if the red X is there, click it to stop the printer then click the green check to start the printer NOTE: I experienced the problem you are describing one time with my laserjet4L until I added the printer logged in as root, from the bomb screen. For some reason adding the printer with admin privileges did not take... don't know why. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
M Harris wrote:
On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:39, Mr Banana wrote:
When I install the printer and test it everything seems OK but after rebooting it stops working. Sending the job to print gives no error, the print queue stays empty and nothing gets printed. If I go into Yast, delete then add the printer it starts working again, untill the next reboot. Sounds like the CUPS server is not starting at bootup... or, the printer (queue) is not starting at bootup.
No, it doesn't seem to be that. I think the problem comes from misnaming of the device. Through yast it is expecting device /dev/usb/lp-1 but in fact the printer is connected as /dev/usb/lp0. I wonder if it is some issue with it being a printer and scanner and picking up the wrong USB device for the printer. The problem is on a system with SuSE 10.1. When I tried the printer with my 10.2 system, two different devices were recognised and configured. I didn't check what happens after a reboot though. Cosmo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello, On Mar 27 17:35 Mr Banana wrote (shortened):
I think the problem comes from misnaming of the device. Through yast it is expecting device /dev/usb/lp-1 but in fact the printer is connected as /dev/usb/lp0.
I assume you meant "/dev/usb/lp1" (without the '-'). Use the new style DeviceURI for the usb backend, see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell "The Backends" YaST uses the new style DeviceURI for the usb backend by default. I wonder why you have the traditional DeviceURI for the usb backend. Perhaps from an update from an older Suse Linux version? 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
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