Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

[mikepolniak <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On 07:48 Mon 14 Nov     , Mario Frasca wrote:
> mikepolniak wrote:
> >Check /dev for lp0. You may have to link your lp0 -> /dev/usb/lp0
> 
> mmmm, but no, the problem is that /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist, not 
> /dev/lp0.  well, I tried but the behaviour was the same...
> 
> kruiskruid:/dev# ls -l lp*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   12 2005-11-14 07:36 lp0 -> /dev/usb/lp0
> crw-rw----  1 root lp   6, 0 2002-03-14 10:11 lp0.non-usb
> crw-rw----  1 root lp   6, 1 2002-03-14 10:11 lp1
> crw-rw----  1 root lp   6, 2 2002-03-14 10:11 lp2
> 
> Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device

Then you can do mkdir /dev/usb and mknod -m 660 /dev/usb/lp0 c 180 0

If you use udev this can be put in /etc/udev/links.conf.