USB Printer Setup Problem

["Thomas H. George,,," <georgeacct@spininternet.com>]

I have an Epson StylusColor 860 which I wish to use on a usb port.  I 
compiled my 2.2.19 kernel with usb support, usb file support and usb 
printer.  cat /proc/bus/usb/devices is emplty, cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers 
shows:

             hub
             usbdevfs
 0- 15: usblp

I have checked BIOS (and that other operating? system accesses the 
printer with no difficulty).  One reference lists a long series of codes 
to be sent by uniprint to wake up the printer in usb mode but apt-get 
doesn't know about uniprint.

Is there a good stable solution to this problem?