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penguin-p

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Registered: 2008-06-08

Posts: 2

Adding USB printer to CUPS

Hello,
I'm trying to get an old Apple LaserWriter Select360 to work. My Laptop doesn't have any LPT ports, so I use an USB/LPT adapter. When I plug the cable in, everything seems to be recognized fine by the system:

usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 4-2: config 1 has an invalid descriptor of length 26, skipping remainder of the config
usb 4-2: config 1 interface 0 has no altsetting 0
usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 2 proto 2 vid 0x04B4 pid 0x4100

lsusb also lists the LPT/USB adapter as a regular USB device:

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:a005 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 04b4:4100 Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001

When the cable is plugged in, the usblp driver starts to work and creates /dev/usblp0 and /dev/usb/lp0. All fine so far.
My problem is, that I can't get CUPS to detect my printer. Any CUPS interface I use
1. doesn't list the printer as an autodetected device
2. doesn't even give the opportunity to add an USB printer.

network socket
network beh
direct hal
direct hpfax
direct hp
network http
network ipp
network lpd
direct scsi
network smb

The CUPS USB backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb won't detect my printer either.

How can I convince CUPS to use /dev/usblp0 for a new printer?
Thanks in advance for your help.