Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.4.21 USB printer failure w/ HP PSC750

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Fri Aug 15 2003 - 15:05:43 EST


On Friday 15 August 2003 12:25, Alan Stern wrote:
>On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I can confirm that this does not appear to be printer related,
>> this nearly exact scenario just happened to me while running
>> test3-mm2. So I powered down the printer, in this case an Epson
>> C82 being driven by cups, and then rebooted to 2.4.22-rc2. Where
>> it also refused to print, until I went to the local cups page and
>> "started" both printers, which had been apparently disabled by the
>> above failure and it carried over the reboot from 2.6.0-test3-mm2
>> to 2.4.22-rc2. Once the printer was 'started' then the 3 jobs I'd
>> sent were spit right out normally.
>>
>> It appears that usblp still has problems as of 2.6.0-test3-mm2.
>
>There was a recent change to usblp for 2.6.0, reversing a prior
> patch which broke the driver somehow. See
>
>http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2931846&forum
>_id=5398
>
>I don't know whether or not this change is already incorporated in
> the version you're using.
>
>Alan Stern

I don't believe it is Alan, and it will now have to wait till late
October and my return from putting out a few fires at a sister tv
station.

By then maybe 2.6.0-rc3 will be out?

--
Cheers, Gene
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