[olug] USB printer setup.

[Joe Gulizia]

When I first got 9.1 it was installed without the
printer.  I ended up doing a complete re-install of
9.1 with the printer hooked up to get it to work.


--- Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> OK Got an interesting problem here. Not critical but
> interesting.
> 
> I run SUSE 9.1. and have a printer (Epson Stylus
> Photo 820) that
> is either usb or parallel port. I know I have had it
> working as
> either in the past. Right now it's set up on
> Parallel because
> recently I couldn't get USB to work. Here's the
> history:
> 
> 1. I came home from vacation several weeks ago to
> find that my
> cups directory had been hammered out of existence
> (the machine
> was down during my vacation). No idea why or what
> Happened. I had
> it set up on USB before it went down and it was
> working then.
> 
> 2. I reinstalled cups and went over my notes from
> when I had
> reinstalled before. I got it set up and went to
> print -- nothing
> happened -- no error messages but no printing
> either.I kept
> trying every which way to get it to work. 
> 
> 3. Finally I took the step of going through the
> windows side
> of my box and setting that up with usb. It printed.
> I know the
> printer works with USB on Windows anyway. So it's
> not a printer
> problem.
> 
> 4. Then I decided to set up the parallel side on
> Linux. Now
> that printed. So I must have misconfigured cups when
>  I was
> setting it up to work with USB, there's a USB driver
> missing
> or something else. I'm not sure which is most
> likely. 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated  in tracking down what
> is
> happening.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Don Kauffman 
> 
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