HP PSC printers

[Steve Ward]

Chris Williams wrote:

>Thansk, Tim - actually we did use your setup guide. Without it, we would
>not have been able to set up the hpoj drivers at all!

>Unfortunately, once we did set it up, the system would absolutely lock
>up whenever you tried to print anything. I don't think this is as much
>an hpoj driver problem as a USB problem now, the more I think about it.

>On restarting the computer, we had to turn the printer off because the
>usb drivers first failed to load properly and eventually the kernel
>oopsed. Rebooting with the printer off let us recover the system and try
>again. It was pretty messy.

>Like I said, it works just fin with the hpijs drivers on the same USB
>port.


Is this by any chance an SMP machine?

There were issues with printer.o on SMP boxen.  The workaround was to use libusb and actually delete the printer.o out of /lib/modules.  This was some time ago, maybe it's been fixed?