Unable to open USB device - a second time

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Oct 22 15:30:09 UTC 2004


Truls Gulbrandsen wrote:
> I had no success with my original posting so I try again.
> 
> Hi,
> I just purchased a HP pcs2175 and are trying to get it to work with my 
> TP T23 running FC2.
> 
> I succeeded in installing the driver and the printer (I think) but not 
> the USB device.
> 
> The printer configuration gives the following error message:  <Unable
> to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": No such device>
> 
> Can someone here please guide me on how to make the USB port work?

What is in your /etc/modprobe.conf file?

What is the output of "lsmod"?

What messages appear in /var/log/messages when you plug in your printer?

Paul.




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