[K12OSN] terminal printers

Julius Szelagiewicz julius at turtle.com
Tue Jun 14 21:03:51 UTC 2005


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> Julius,
>
> Hmm,
>
> You also need a module called 'printer'. It should have been loaded
> already.
>
> What do you have for PRINTER_0_TYPE ?  For usb, it should be "U".  maybe
> that's the problem.
>
> Try setting that, and if it doesn't work, try:
>
>    modprobe printer
>
> Then, look in /dev/usb and see if you have any printer devices.
>
> If you look at the rc.sysinit script, you'll see that 'printer' should
> get loaded automatically.  That's why i'm thinking you didn't set 'U'
> for the type.
>
> Anyway, give that a shot, and report your success.
>
> Jim.
>
>
>> >
>> Jim,
>>  uname -a shows kernel 2.4.26-ltsp-3, the usb-ohci, usbcore, usbmouse
>> and
>> usbkbd are loaded. the server is being kept uptodate by apt-get
>> dist-upgrade.
>> julius
>>

Jim, I changed "S" to "U" (it was "S" for USB printers), to no avail.
modprobe printer causes lsmod to find module "printer", nothing shows up
in /dev/usb
julius

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