Please review the patches described for Ubuntu Oneiric from Till Kamppeter, t...@linuxprinting.org :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/564917 Ubuntu 10.04 does not recognize local printer connected via USB/parallel adapter cable Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote on 2011-11-10: #66 Can everyone who has still problems with printing from his USB printer after booting the new kernel try the new CUPS package in my PPA (https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ppa)? Simply follow the instructions under "Adding this PPA to your system" and then update your Oneiric system. I have Debian Sid, linux-image-3.1.0-1-686-pae version 3.1.1-1 on a ThinkPad T60, and cups version 1.5.0-12: $ lsusb Bus 002 Device 002: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port connected to an HP Laserjet 4 Plus. There is no "/dev/usb" until $ sudo modprobe usblp $ dmesg [39268.349834] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305 [39268.349863] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp $ ll /dev/usb/lp0 crw-rw---T 1 root lp 180, 0 Nov 20 21:01 /dev/usb/lp0 $ sudo /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb DEBUG: list_devices DEBUG: usb_find_busses=5 DEBUG: usb_find_devices=8 from package printer-driver-foo2zjs, version 20111023dfsg0-1 $ sudo usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0 2>&1 | cat -v - GET_DEVICE_ID string: <there follows a lot of binary, or nothing, but not text, which changes each time the command is run> $ hp-probe -busb HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.11.10) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 ... warning: No devices found on the 'usb' bus. ... James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
