[Bug 679488] CUPS cannot detect USB printer Brother MFC 8420

manually add the uri of the printer in the cups connection wizard thusly: parallel:/dev/usb/lp0 leaves me just a wee bit puzzled. It is a USB printer

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679488 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=679488#c16 --- Comment #16 from Bruce Korb 2011-03-23 22:00:09 UTC --- I surely wish I were a casual user. :) Your comment: plugged into the usb port. Does this incantation tell the driver to send parallel port output through the USB port? And this works? Weird, indeed. Next time I want to go bang my head on a wall, I'll give this a try...... Also puzzling is:

repeat of a cups bug I noticed in 11.3 and still exists in 11.4. It cannot be the same bug, because I do not see this symptom in 11.3. Seems like there was some issue that caused the USB printer "Xerox Phaser 6280" to go unnoticed that expanded its scope via some mechanism to include a "Brother MFC-8420" next time around.

This is, actually, a show stopper for me. But there is still a sound issue that is only solved by downloading some weirdo app that seems to fix it, but you have to manually fire it up. With quite a bit of pain, I got Alsa sound to work in 11.3, but again that was not for the feint of heart. 11.4 video is also choppy. Summary: 11.4 still needs work. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.