Re: USB printer: no such device

[Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 05:49:07PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
Hi:
  Why don't you have a look at /var/log/messages to see whether your
  printer is being detected, adn if so, whether it is lp0, lp1 etc.

  Hope this helps.
-- 
Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
s-canagaratna@onu.edu