Bug 102465 – Printer not recognized if USB-Printer compiled in

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Arnaud Limbourg 2005-08-14 03:26:34 UTC]

In the Locally Attached Printer (USB) section it shows USB-printer 
 support as being compiled-in. After fighting with getting printing to work for
a while I decided to try the module approach, which yielded much better results.
 
 It might be worth adding a note to the tutorial saying that if the compiled-in
approach fails the module one should be tried. The symptom is the absence of 
 /dev/usb/lp0 (and /dev/usb for that matter).


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Chose UB-Printer as compiled in
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Printer is not recongnized, /dev/usb does not exist

Expected Results:  
Printer recognized, appearing under /dev/usb/lp0

[Comment 1 Shyam Mani (RETIRED) 2005-08-14 04:00:38 UTC]

Umm, my USB printer doesn't appear under either, but CUPS picks it up and my
printing works fine...

[Comment 2 Arnaud Limbourg 2005-08-14 05:26:50 UTC]

Weird, CUPS only picked it up after I compiled and loaded the module. In CUPS
though the printer does not show up after USB Printer #1 but it works.

[Comment 3 Shyam Mani (RETIRED) 2005-09-09 02:53:20 UTC]

I'm putting this as NEEDINFO for now..if it works, nothing to fix. 

Reopen in case you have more info on this.