On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 15:33, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use my HP PSC 750 connected via USB. > > My kernel is "Linux Fenix 2.2.18pre21" > > The dmesg command gives > > ... > usb.c: registered new driver usblp > usb.c: registered new driver usbscanner > scanner.c: USB Scanner support registered. > usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic > usb.c: registered new driver serial > uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 10 > uhci.c: detected 2 ports > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 > usb.c: USB device 1 (prod/vend 0x0/0x0) is not claimed by any active > driver. > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed > usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2 > usb.c: USB device 2 (prod/vend 0x45e/0x1b) is not claimed by any > active driver. > Swap area shorter than signature indicates > Swap area shorter than signature indicates > usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 3 > printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 > registered device ppp0 > > I already tried to do (as said in > http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x342.html) > > mknod /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0
Well I'm no usb expert but how exactly are you communicating with the printer? Catting files into /dev/lp0 or /dev/usb/lp0? Is the usb printer module loaded or compiled into the kernel? Are you using lpd, CUPS, etc? --mike
