[plug] No printer in Debian Etch

[Steve Boak]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 19:04, Innis Cunningham wrote:
> Hi All
> I am not able to get the printer to work in Debian Etch.
> For whatever reason it does not seem to be able to find the drivers
> although they are there.
> There are reports of this being a problem but none of the fixes i
> have read about seem to work.
> So if there is someone here who has their printer working under
> etch i would apreciate any help.

I don't use my printer much, so I didn't even know I had this problem until 
yesterday. The fix for mine was to chmod 666 /dev/usb/lp0 - it was 660. I 
know this shouldn't be necessary, but it worked!

(Sorry I can't tell you where I found the answer, but it was in some obscure 
blog, and I didn't bookmark it).

Steve


> TIA
>
> Cheers
> Innis
>
>
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