Bug#632189: cups can not detect my usb printer

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

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On Thu 30 Jun 2011 at 14:49:58 +0300, Orson wrote:

> After upgrading to Cups 1.4.6-9 my usb printer could not be detected by cups.
> I Even tried removing usblp from blacklist and adding "FileDevice yes" to
> cupsd.conf and restarting cups but my printer could not be detected by cups.
> Solution was to downgrade cups to 1.4.6-6 and everything worked perfectly
> again.

Hello Orson,

Thank you for your report.

There have been some important changes to the way cups handles USB
connections in the past two years. The best would be for you to test the
printer on Jessie or Sid. Or maybe the problem is fixed in Wheezy?
Please let us know.

Regards,

Brian.