[plug] printer newbie question

[John Knight]

Cheers Craig and Alan, I'll try it all out in the next few days and get back 
to ya. :)

tah muchly!

Make lunch, not war.



>
>Alan Graham wrote:
>>I haven't seen any better qualified replies, so I'll give it a go.  The
>>first problem you have is that it's a usb printer.  /dev/lp0 is the
>>device address of the parallel printer port.  To find the address given
>>to your usb printer, you need to have a look in your syslog out put.  I
>>can't rmember the default syslog file for RH 7.3 (/var/log/messages ?),
>>but you can find out by looking at /etc/syslogd.conf.  If you can't find
>>it there then make sure the USB printer is switched on and connected,
>>reboot, and have a look at the output of dmesg.  Try 'dmesg | grep usb'
>>
>>If you don't get any output from dmesg, or there's nothing in the
>>syslog, then you don't have usb support in the kernel and you'll have to
>>compile it in.
>
>... or its built as a module and not being loaded - try "modprobe uhci" or 
>"modprobe usb-uhci". There's also a USB printer module that you'll need to 
>load - I have the funny feeling its called "printer" but I can't remember, 
>nor can I presently check.
>
>You may also need to set usbdevfs to mount on /dev/usb if it isn't 
>automatically. I can't help you there sorry, I'm still mostly in the dark 
>ages of PS/2 and all my USB stuff works via HID and the input core in 
>/dev/input using devfs :-)
>
>>BTW, consider installing cups and gimp-print (remove lpd, bsd-lpd
>>first), as it's a lot easier in the long run to administer printers with
>>cups.
>
>Hmm... I've been using CUPS at work and have found it good, but far from 
>solid. The web front end sometimes crashes out and kills cupsd ; certain 
>ppds kill it dead ; setting the default printer seems to only work using 
>"lpadmin", etc. OTOH this is the version of CUPS in deb. woody which is a 
>bit old now.
>
>


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