Hi Folks, On a fresh install of 11.3 I noticed that the previously working (11.2) USB connected Xerox Phaser printer didn't show up in CUPS. The printer showed up in boot.msg and lsusb, but the add-printer screen in CUPS was clueless. It seems that this is a known issue with CUPS, where the printer identification info has a new-line character. HAL apparently shielded CUPS from this issue, but with HAL being deprecated in 11.3 the problem was triggered. Read about it here on an Ubuntu forum: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/468701> Where Till Kamppeter (#39) suggests: _+_+_+_+_+_+_+ Paul L, I see, HAL and its CUPS backend were working around the problem that your printer does not return a usable device ID. HAL is deprecated now and therefore the hal CUPS backend is no part of Ubuntu any more. If your Panasonic is your only USB printer you can use the device URI parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 as alternative in Karmic or Lucid. _+_+_+_+_+_+_+ This worked on my 11.3 system. Under the YAST2 "connection wizard" I entered "parallel:/dev/usb/lp0" in the field for IPP devices, which accepts a URI. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org