USB printer: no such device

[Florian Sukup <debian2003@sukup.at>]

Hi,

I've read HOWTOs and asked Google but I can't find the solution:

I've a postscript-usb printer. And I am running Debian, 2.4.18 kernel 
(selfcompiled but almost same config as the Debian kernel).

I inserted the printer module: 

modprobe printer

And then I tried 

echo hello > /dev/usb/lp0
su: /dev/usb/lp0: No such device

As far as I read this has to work before I can start configuring lpr or 
simular.

This printer (lexmark t520) was connected to a SuSE machine. There the 
setup just took me a few minutes. Therefore, it should be possible to 
run this printer with Debian as well.

Thanks for hints,
Florian.