[PLUG] USB and /dev/usb/lp0

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Sat Jul 6 20:45:57 UTC 2002


On Saturday 06 July 2002 01:08 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Bill Spears wrote:
> > OK, I have Woody up and running, and now I'd like to get a printer
> > working. I thought I'd give a USB printer a chance.
> >
> > I've done the following to isolate the problem:
> > #cat tempfile > /dev/usb/lp0
> > gives: No such device
> >
> > I've given the command:
> > #modprobe usb-ohci
> > and checked with
> > #lsmod
> > to find that both
> >  usb-ohci
> >  usbcore
> > are loaded.
> >
> > I don't know what to try next.
>
> It's been a few months since I setup my USB printer (also under woody),
> but one question comes to mind, is the USB printer driver (coincidentally
> named "printer" :-) installed?
>
> Shannon C. Dealy      |               DeaTech Research Inc.
> dealy at deatech.com     |          - Custom Software Development -
>
>
Whoa, Momma, modprobe printer fixed it, or atleast cat tempfile > /dev/usb/lp0
works now.  





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