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From: Cheyenne, WY

Registered: 2007-10-05

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USB printer not available

For the past few years I have been using my own homebrewed kernel (so I can load only the modules that I actually need, thus conserving memory) but recently I switched to an NVidia card for better gaming... and I have to use the generic Arch-compiled kernel in order to use NV's proprietary modules.

So anyhow, whenever I boot to the standard Arch kernel (2.6.27.1) my /proc/bus/usb folder is empty, and lsusb also comes up empty.  The usb core module is loaded, and I went ahead and added usblp just in case, but that didn't help.  I have to boot with my homebrewed kernel (which has usbcore and usblp in memory, rather than as modules) in order to print anything.

Any suggestions on what I might be missing?  I'd just use my own kernel full time if I could get the NV driver to compile, or the Arch kernel full time if I can get the USB handling to work.

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Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY