On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0400, Walter Tautz wrote: > the odd thing is I got this to work on one of my other hosts (running > stock debian kernel 2.4.18-686 but not the one below (2.4.20-1- from > proposed-updates Er, are you sure? '2.4.20-bigbend' is not the name of any kernel in Debian that I've seen... > below it's a hp deskjet 5550 btw: (I'm using cups on woody) > > > gbend:~# uname -a > Linux bigbend.cs 2.4.20-bigbend #1 Fri May 16 12:49:15 EDT 2003 i686 unknown > bigbend:~# lsmod > Module Size Used by Not tainted > i810_audio 22304 0 > soundcore 3460 2 [i810_audio] > ac97_codec 10080 0 [i810_audio] > printer 7424 0 > usbcore 61024 0 [printer] > ide-scsi 7616 0 > > and dmesg says: > > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > usb.c: registered new driver usblp > printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver Do you have 'hotplug' installed? It can usually figure out the modules for you. > here is the kernel config file: (and at the end I've included lspci -v output > which DOES seem to give some hint as to why thing may not be working, i.e. > the USB devices seem to be unidentified....? the system is a Dell Precision > workstation... Which bit is the problem? If it's just that devices are not appearing in /dev/, then that just means you need to create them yourself with mknod. You'll need to find out somewhere else which major/minor numbers to use, though. Unless you're using devfs, that is; it's not the default in Debian, though. The other obvious things: 1) What does google/linuxprinting.org say about support for your printer? 2) Do other USB devices work? 3) Which modules are loaded/what is mentioned in 'dmesg' when you use a Debian kernel that works? -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: broadside beanpole number key kilo class IDEA Rule Psix
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