rhaynes Posted March 14, 2005 Report Share Posted March 14, 2005 Hi, As detailed in the hardware section of this board I have been having intermittant problems with a usb printer (hp laserjet 1300). I am running mandrake 10.0 official with the stock 2.6.3-7smp kernel. The printer installed correctly and ran after the initial install. It has died a few times since. Printerdrake recognizes the printer on /usb/lp1 it identifies the correct model and recommends a driver. But the test pages or nothing else prints. The first hint of something mysterious happens when I go into the cups www admin page and the message says trying to connect to printer (retrying in 30 seconds) on /dev/usb/lp0. Somehow the device number has change. Trying to change it back to lp1 in the cups admin page doesn't seem to work. Jobs head to the print Q and stay there. A google search indicates a possible usb problem when multiple (in my case two) usb devices are present. Something to do with device addressing. My question is if anyone knows which kernel version (if any) addresses this issue. And if so ... will it work without breaking anything else on Mandrake 10.0 official? What is the highest kernel version one should try to use on 10.0? Thanks, R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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