[plug] usb printer

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 21:48:37 +0800, William Kenworthy
<billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> do you have usblp loaded?

Well, I had a look and couldn't find it anywhere. So I googled for
usblp and debian to find what package it was in and found this:

"The USB printer module under the 2.4 kernel is named printer, but on
2.6 it is called usblp."

And I do have printer loaded:

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
printer                 7712   0  (unused)
parport_pc             14756   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6752   0  (autoclean)
parport                24320   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
rtc                     6844   0  (autoclean)
via-rhine              12720   1
mii                     2368   0  [via-rhine]
crc32                   2912   0  [via-rhine]
via82cxxx_audio        20056   1
ac97_codec             12424   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401                 6532   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
sound                  56852   0  [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               3524   4  [via82cxxx_audio sound]
apm                     9736   1
agpgart                44228   0  (unused)
ide-scsi                9456   0
ide-cd                 30528   0
ide-floppy             12828   0
sr_mod                 14968   0  (unused)
cdrom                  26752   0  [ide-cd sr_mod]
scsi_mod               55736   2  [ide-scsi sr_mod]


> 
> BillK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 17:14 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been trying all day to get a usb printer working. I found a
> > driver for the canon mpc190 at:
> >
> >  http://www.turboprint.de/english.html
> >
> > The install script works a treat and seems everything is ok. The kde
> > print manager and the cups web page both see the printer that is
> > created. Problem is, printing to it doesn't work. I've tried all three
> > methods of sending a test page, Turboprint script, kde print manager,
> > and cups printer manager.
> >
> > I know that usb is installed and works on my pc. I have a usb mouse
> > and keyboard and I've downloaded photos from a camera through a usb
> > link.
> >
> > The problem seems to be that the printer driver doesn't load for the
> > device? When I do a 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices' I can see the canon
> > printer and it says driver=(none):
> >
> > < T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 10 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
> > < D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
> > < P:  Vendor=04a9 ProdID=2635 Rev= 1.04
> > < S:  Manufacturer=Canon Inc.
> > < S:  Product=MPC190
> > < S:  SerialNumber=302TDF
> > < C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  2mA
> > < I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=ff Driver=(none)
> > < E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> > < E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
> > < E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  64 Ivl=100ms
> >
> > >From hours of googling I believe it should say driver=usblp. I've done
> > insmod printer as most of the howtos say but it makes no difference.
> >
> > It's a libranet (debian) system, kernel 2.4.26 using cups.
> >
> > Any thoughts or suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> -- 
> William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
> Home!
> 
> 


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Regards,
Russ