Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote:
Just to be sure: Run apt-get --purge remove hotplug (Plain "remove" leaves configuration files on the system; "--purge" gets rid of them.)
OK, done.Following which I power cycled the printer and rebooted the server. No change.
find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; [...]snoopy>/usr/lib/cups/backend/usbdirect usb://Brother/HL-5040%20series "Brother HL-5040 series" "Brother HL-5040 series USB #1" "MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,PCL,PCLXL;MDL:HL-5040 series;CLS:PRINTER;"So far, so good. Now let's see how the printer is defined for CUPS. Post the output of grep DeviceURI /etc/cups/printers.conf
DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-5040%20series Looks identical to the /dev name to me. Graham