What do the following error messages in the error log mean? Sep 8 12:17:51 james kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status Sep 8 12:18:03 james kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout I get them on a SuSE Linux V8.2 system running on a Pentium IV, the printer is a Kyocera FS-1010 connected via an USB Port. I tried to use the postscript driver and also the PCL driver, the problem manifests itself on both and postscript is unbearably slow. Thanks Peter
Hello, On Sep 14 17:59 Peter Sutter wrote (shortened):
What do the following error messages in the error log mean?
Sep 8 12:17:51 james kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status Sep 8 12:18:03 james kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
This indicate USB problems - i.e. problems regarding the plain data transfer via USB - this has nothing to do with printer drivers.
Kyocera FS-1010 connected via an USB Port
Try the parallel port (I guess this printer has one). See the manual and http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-parallel.html how to set up a parallel port if is doesn't work out-of-the-box. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 20:48, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Sep 14 17:59 Peter Sutter wrote (shortened):
What do the following error messages in the error log mean?
Sep 8 12:17:51 james kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer status Sep 8 12:18:03 james kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
This indicate USB problems - i.e. problems regarding the plain data transfer via USB - this has nothing to do with printer drivers.
Kyocera FS-1010 connected via an USB Port
Try the parallel port (I guess this printer has one). See the manual and http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/04/jsmeix_print-device-paralle l.html how to set up a parallel port if is doesn't work out-of-the-box.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
Thanks a lot Johannes, Is it possible that faulty printer memory may too cause these symptoms? The usb board on the printer has been replaced, the usb ports on the motherboard have been replaced and a new cable is being used. I tried the parallel port in the past too, and the printers response became very slow too; although there were no errors in the log. Regards Peter Sutter
Hello, On Sep 14 22:36 Peter Sutter wrote (shortened):
tried the parallel port in the past too, and the printers response became very slow too
Try to use the parallel port in interrupt mode. Try to use the parallel port in faster modes (set them in the BIOS). Perhaps you may have to set a matching parallel port mode in the printer too? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
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