Re: Recent upgrade broke my canon printer

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jonathan for the update.

I just have one little question -- hope someone on printing team can answer:
Who makes the /dev/usb/lp0 device?
On my working wheezy system it would come and go when the printer was switched on and off.  On the upgraded and non-working debian it does not appear.

Will be grateful for tips on this.

So is it made by udev? hal? cups?

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Rustom Mody wrote:

> I have a canon printer that has been working with debian and the canon
> supplied packages for quite a while
> Recent upgrades broke the printer is now the captstatusui gives me:

Quick context for the printing team: this printer is not currently
supported out of the box by Debian, nor by packages in the non-free
repository that accompanies it.  There is a free driver available
though I'm not sure how well it works.  Packaging work is tracked at
http://bugs.debian.org/618640