USB Printer Support

[Jay Moore]

I'm having great difficulty getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 connected 
to an IOGear USB KVM connected to a Dell Poweredge 2100/180 to be 
recognized by RH8.  i've included the results of checkpc -V and mknod. 
when i try and mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0, i get a file alread exists 
error.  when i use Red Hat Printer Config, the device doesn't show up 
even with a rescan and i have to try and enter it as Custom.  the 
manuals i've read state that if the lp0 file exists and you select a 
proper driver printer config, then everything should work.  am i missing 
something really stupid?
thanks in advance
Jay Moore

checkpc -V
LPRng-3.8.9, Kerberos5, Copyright 1988-2002 Patrick Powell, 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Checking for configuration files '/etc/lpd.conf'
 found '/etc/lpd.conf', mod 0100644
Checking for printcap files '/etc/printcap'
Checking for lpd only printcap files '/etc/lpd_printcap'
DaemonUID 4, DaemonGID 7
Using Config file '/etc/lpd.conf'
LPD lockfile '/var/run/lpd.515'

.names
:Epsonsc740=Epsonsc740
.all
:Epsonsc740
#Printcap Information
Epsonsc740
:af=/var/spool/lpd/Epsonsc740/Epsonsc740.acct
:if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0
:lpd_bounce=true
:ml#0
:mx#0
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/Epsonsc740
:sh
Checking printcap info
Checking printer 'Epsonsc740'
Checking directory: '/var/spool/lpd/Epsonsc740'
  directory '/var'
  directory '/var/spool'
  directory '/var/spool/lpd'
  directory '/var/spool/lpd/Epsonsc740'
 checking 'control.pr' file
 checking 'status.pr' file
 checking 'status' file
 checking 'log' file
 checking '/var/spool/lpd/Epsonsc740/Epsonsc740.acct' file
Warning - Epsonsc740: cannot open lp device '/dev/usb/lp0' - No such device
 'if' filter '/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper'
   executable '/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
mknod: `/dev/usb/lp0': File exists
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