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scire

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Registered: 2009-11-16

Posts: 16

Printer troubles, was working before

Hello,
I have search for countless hours and tried many things to get my printer to work, but it simply won't even be detected by cups. I have a samsung ML-1640 (see: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_print … ng-ML-1640). I'm led to believe that this is working on cups1.4 since there has been a recent driver release which is still listed as working. It was working before I compiled the new kernel (2.6.32), and did a system update, however I no longer have the old cups version in my cache, and I did a manual reinstall of the previous cups, and it failed to run.

When I go to the CUPS admin panel, and try to detect a new printer, it does not detect it.
(Note: This had been a problem before as well, but I had always been able to delete all cups configs and reinstall cups, and it would detect it again - this is not working now.)

I am using cups 1.4.2 and SpliX 2.0.0-2.

Here is all the info that I think would be necessary to figure it out, but I've been wrong before.
ls -l /dev/usb/lp0: (it has the right permissions)

crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Jan  7 19:30 /dev/usb/lp0

dmesg|tail after plugin:

usb 1-6.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-6.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3292

lsusb:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 04e8:3292 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp. USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 152d:2329 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp. USB Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

In /etc/rc.conf:

MODULES=( ... !usblp ...)
DAEMONS=(... !usblp cups ...)

tail /var/log/messages.log:

Jan  7 19:30:21 dinah kernel: usb 1-6.4: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
Jan  7 19:30:21 dinah kernel: usb 1-6.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan  7 19:30:21 dinah kernel: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x3292
Jan  7 19:38:40 dinah kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
Jan  7 19:38:41 dinah kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
Jan  7 19:38:42 dinah kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 8
Jan  7 19:38:42 dinah kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 9

Any help or suggestions on what I should take a look at or try would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks very much!
  Marc

maddojf

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Registered: 2008-10-29

Posts: 8

Re: Printer troubles, was working before

I realise this is a late reply, but I will post it anyway in case someone else comes looking.  I ran into a problem with a Samsung ML 2525 where it would work if I plugged it into my computer through a single usb hub but it wouldn't work if I plugged it in through two chained usb hubs (one of them is actually a usb switch which is used to share the printer among multiple computers).  After some searching and kernel recompiling, I found that downgrading to cups 3.11 solved the problem.  I had to recompile the package using the directions in the Downgrading a Package wiki.  An additional note: I only downgraded the cups package, not any of the dependencies (i.e. libcups) and it is currently working fine for me.

Last edited by maddojf (2010-06-09 19:41:17)