Greetings, I've having some problems similar to those in Bug 12976. There wasn't an obvious resolution in that bug... I'm having trouble getting my usb printer recognized. The printer works on the same workstation when running under SuSE. I have compiled the kernel with usb-uchi and printer as modules. From dmesg I see: usb.c: registered new driver usblp printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver Under SuSE dmesg would say all sorts of info about the printer: that it's an HP usb blah blah, and so on. I don't see any messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages relating to the usb hub discovering a new device. I used the cups web interface to configure the printer and, like in Bug 12976, the device points to /dev/usblp0. There is no such device. Following the advice from that bug, I ln -s /dev/usb/lp0 /dev/usblp0. Cups acts like this is OK, but nothing will print. Using the instructions from the printing howto at gentoo.org, I run echo "hello bob" > /dev/usb/lp0; -bash: /dev/usb/lp0: Permission denied I really don't know what to do at this point. I hope you can help me out. Thanks! Here's emerge info: Portage 2.0.48 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-ck6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg gnome libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib directfb gtkhtml alsa gdbm slang readline arts tetex aalib bonobo svga tcltk java guile ruby mysql X sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl gphoto2 cdr cups 3dfx acpi dga dvd emacs flash gtk2 kerberos mozilla pda plotutils samba sse usb xml -gpm -berkdb" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
I had the same problem, but after looking around at some Linux USB sites, I decided to try enabling usb-ohci in addition to my usb-uhci. And problem solved.
Greetings again, I've gotten my problem fixed. Loading usb-ohci, as maiar@hfx suggested, failed because I don't have one of those sorts of usb hubs. What's ultimately fixed the problem is to use gentoo-sources-r5 for my kernel. The dmesg now reports it sees the HP printer. Is there something wrong with the usb.c in the ck-6 kernel? Also I've downloaded the newest hpijs (1.4.1) and installed it--it comes with foomatic-rip and the PPD uses this. I didn't do the foomatic-configuration from the gentoo printing guide. At first I followed the guide but it didn't work. Then I deleted that queue and added a new printer only in cups--after installing the new hpijs. Now that it all works, you can close this bug. Thanks.
will have a look .. sorry for the delay there was a problem with the mail alias so i didn't get the Bugzilla mails
everything working...
