Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)
David Goodenough wrote:
On Sunday 13 November 2005 20:28, Mario Frasca wrote:
well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and
the only cause I can think of is a dist-upgrade.
I had a problem not unlike this. For some reason the permissions on the
/dev/usb/lp* devices were all the same EXCEPT lp0. Make lp0 like the rest and
suddenly it works.
hi David, thanks for the hint, but no, this seems in order:
kruiskruid:~# ls -l /dev/usb/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 1 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 10 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp10
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 11 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp11
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 12 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp12
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 13 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp13
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 14 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp14
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 15 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp15
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 2 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp2
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 3 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp3
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 4 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp4
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 5 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp5
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 6 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp6
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 7 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp7
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 8 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp8
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 9 2002-03-14 10:11 /dev/usb/lp9
I would not know what to change here.
Mario
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