On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 21:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > >> Evening, Experts! > >> > >> My printer isn't printing. > >> > >> More precisely, when in CUPS 1.5.2 (localhost:631), CUPS fails to find > >> the printer. When I click on "Find New Printers" it comes back with > >> "Available Printers - No Printers Found.". > >> > >> My system has been like this since I converted back from mdev to udev. > >> Though I have just built Linux 3.3.8 in the hope that a new kernel build > >> would help. ;-(. > >> > >> Help would be most appreciated. > >> > >> TIA! > > I had to blacklist the usblp module for CUPS to work with my printer. FWIW. > > :) > > > > > > > I think I read something about this a while back. Maybe google can turn > up a reason why since my memory is like a screen door, only catches some > stuff but lets everything else flow right through. ;-) > > Since I have not had any trouble with my printer, I bet it was on this > mailing list or KDE's mailing list. Those are the only two I subscribe > to. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
This broke my printing as well - I went the route of taking the module out of the kernel config. But what I didnt resolve to my satisfaction, is what is the best solution? - there are two that work but which *should* we use? BillK
