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  • From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] printer config
  • Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT)

Jeremy Kolb said:
> I have a question. In the cups docs it mentions that if you type in
> lpstat (think followed with a -v or something) you can see the supported
> devices for printing. well in the docs they show one for usb, but when
> i type it in i don't see anything for usb, and my printer sadly is only
> connected via usb. i have usb support compiled into the kernel, and my
> printer shows up, but for some reason our cups doesn't want to talk to
> usb, so how do i go about fixing this?
>
> Jeremy

Jeremy,

I really have no idea, I've only dealt with parallel printers in Linux (I
have only one USB device, and that's for video games :)). You may want to
make sure that you have all of the appropriate USB devices loaded with
'modprobe -v <module>' and that the computer connected to the printer can
print through it. From there, follow the directions on the CUPS website,
they may have some info in the FAQ or ML that talk about USB printers.
Also, you may want to try a search on Google.

-One of Three
a.k.a. sandalle

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