Hotplug USB Printer
Hi All,
I have a problem concerning a combination of hotplug, usb, and my printer.
Computer is running sarge on a 2.6 kernel. Printer is an HP Deskjet 895C.
What happens is that if I leave my printer usb cable attached during
boot the system hangs at the stage where hotplug verifies the printer.
I get the error "USB 1-2: control time out on e0pin" and boot will not
advance beyond that point. I have to hit the reset button to get out of
this. I have let it just sit for several minutes and nothing ever
happens unless/until I hit reset. If I unplug the printer usb cable the
computer boots normally. And when I plug the printer in after boot up
and restart hotplug it will successfully load the printer drivers and
the printer will work. It does have a couple of oddities in its
operation though. It will print 4 or 5 lines, pause a couple of
seconds, printer a few more lines, pause, and so on. But, that only
happens when printing documents from applications. It doesn't do that
when printing a test page from the CUPS interface. It also won't print
from a web browser. However, the main irritation is not being able to
boot successfully with the usb cable plugged in.
If I unistall hotplug the computer boots fine, it just won't recognize
my printer or sound card. I tried usbmgr and when using it the boot
process will hang at the same place if the printer usb cable is plugged
in too, but if I unplug the cable it will recognize the printer is not
there anymore and continue on to boot successfully.
Anyone have any ideas on this? Seen this before?
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