Re: usb printer "gone" after apt-get dist-upgrade?
On 2004-08-27, Josef Oswald <oswald@chello.at> wrote:
> This is getting to me,
Hey, my printing broke with apsfilter and it threw me into a deep
depression. Apparently, it was a problem with sed, although I've not
verified that. When all is sed and done, etc.
> Had such a hard time installing the usb printer here, and last it
> was working was before I did apt-get dist-upgrade.
> Now Cups tells me that there is no device /dev/usb/lp0.
Well, you don't give us much to go on. Are all the proper modules being
loaded for usb printing?
> So most likely the solution is somewhere else, but I would like to know
> if apt-get dist-upgrade can have such effects, that printers don't work
> afterwards?
I think your printer still works, frankly.
> /etc/printcap entry
<snip>
I don't believe cups is using that default /etc/printcap. It's extraneous
information.
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