Re: USB Printer Support

[Jay Moore]

yes i've tried connecting directly to the printer.  unfortunately, no joy.  the KVM i'm using has two extra USB ports and acts as a USB hub primarily to do exactly what i'm trying to do, which is share all USB peripherals  through a switchbox.  its very frustrating.  usb is loading properly (i've got keyboard and mouse HID working properly) and dmesg says that the hub (KVM) is recognized and that there is a device (the only extra device is the printer) hanging on it.  it just won't recognize that its an Epson Printer.
Jay

Message: 6
From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Printer Support
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:42:18 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

> 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
  

I'm assuming you've tried going directly to the PC? Not through a KVM?

And I thought KVM were for Keyboard/Mouse/Monitor switching only? Not for
printer?

Regards,

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Edward Dekkers (Director)
Triple D Computer Services P/L