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Re: USB printer



Still having some issue with this.  The error I'm getting is:Paused:
Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20C42": No such device

When I run '/etc/init.d/hotplug restart' the printer will usually work
again.  Any other ideas?

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 02:24 +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 01:13, Mike Dobbs wrote:
> > I have a C42UX printer.  It works great when it's plugged in and turned
> > on when the system  boots.  However, if it is turned off cups just
> > pauses the printer and says the printer cannot be found.
> 
> You can use a hotplug script to automatically enable/disable the printer.
> 
> Put something like the following two files in /etc/hotplug/usb
> The values for the .usermap file can be found with "lsusb".
> 
> Paul
> 
> ---------- printer.usermap -----------
> # usb module match_flags idVendor idProduct bcdDevice_lo bcdDevice_hi 
> bDeviceClass bDeviceSubClass bDeviceProtocol bInterfaceClass 
> bInterfaceSubClass bInterfaceProtocol driver_info
> ml1210 0x0003 0x04e8 0x300c 0x0000 0x0000 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 
> 0x00000000
> 
> ---------- printer -----------
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> case "$ACTION" in
>     add)
>         /usr/bin/enable C42UX
>         if [ ! -z "$REMOVER" ]; then
>           cat > "$REMOVER" << EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> /usr/bin/disable C42UX
> EOF
>           chmod +x "$REMOVER"
>         fi
>     ;;
> esac
> 
> exit 0
> 
> 



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