When you select a USB printer via the CUPS web interface, it sets the thing up to print to /dev/usblp0, which doesn't exist and isn't created by devfs. Given that Gentoo does not use legacy /dev, it would probably be best to change this in CUPS so that it uses the proper /dev/usb/lp# rather than add the legacy symlink to devfsd.
sounds strange .. it works here ( i only got an usb printer myself ...) cups-1.1.18 ? which gimp-print(-cups) ??
Right, I can confirm this; it happens on my box. However, I just made a smylink dev/usblp0->/dev/usb/lp0 which works fine - this is probably a low priority; the ebuild can either change this in cups or can set up it's own symlinks. I've mainly been having problems with authentication (I get Forbidden errors everywhere w/ the http front-end).
nate: your frontend-problem is because of the default cups config (change the ServerName in cupsd.conf and try again :) both: please send me more details about your config
This bug was seen on my notebook, which uses a USB printer at school, I don't have a USB printer here at home yet. In fact, at the moment I don't have any printer config, so I'll fake it to reproduce the problem: galen ~ # emrge rsync galen ~ # emerge net-print/cups : net-print/cups selected: none protected: 1.1.18 omitted: none galen ~ # rc-update add cupsd default * cupsd added to runlevel default... * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] * rc-update complete. galen ~ # /etc/init.d/cupsd start * Starting cupsd... No configuration at all at this point. Now, go to http://localhost:631, click on admin tasks, login Click add printer under Printers heading Fill in name: usbprinter, click continue Select device: USB printer #1, click continue HP, continue HP new deskjet series CUPS v1.1 (en), continue usbprinter has been added successfully.. Now... galen ~ # cat /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.18 # Written by cupsd on Sun Jan 5 16:37:58 2003 <DefaultPrinter usbprinter> DeviceURI usb:/dev/usblp0 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> This should have "DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0". As Nate says, it's possible to simply add a symlink to devfsd.conf, but the correct solution is to fix CUPS since /dev/usb/thing is the recommended way to handle USB device nodes even on non-devfs systems.
weird .. it works here.. anyway i'll check on friday or saturday when i get home again
ok .. after a new install (of my sys) i get that too .. /me checks
found the bug! there's a missing dep for hotplug .. i'll add now and commit it..
u using 'x86' or '~x86' ? if 'x86' please emerge hotplug and tell me if it works then ... (i need to know if it works with stable x86 before i can commit it ..)
ok fixed .. should work .. commiting now .. P.S.: maybe u got to add usb-uhci and printer to your modules.autoload cuz hotplug seems to have problems with it..
Well adding the dependency for hotplug may have 'fixed it' but it isn't really a good solution. I don't have usb on my computer and I don't want to be installing hotplug. Maybe you could make it only depend on hotplug if you have 'usb' set in your USE flags -note- I tried to reopen this bug but it wouldn't let me
it is ... in ~x86 .. i'll mark it as stable for x86
db fix
