Anyone could make Epson Stylus cx4700 work?

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 02:56:25PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:44:17 pm Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:51:53PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote:
> > >  Hi
> > >  I tried to install my epson stylus cx4700 printer, I installed cups,
> > > then gutenprint.
> > >  When configuring the printer in kde control center it detected the
> > > driver for stylus cx4700 and a device was /dev/ulpt0  (its has a usb
> > > connection). After doing that I wanted to test it, but it couldnt print
> > > anything. neither it can give me information about ink level. It says
> > > "Device is busy".
> >
> > One thing to check for are the permissions of the device file
> > /dev/ulpt0. Cups needs to be able to read from and write to this device,
> > so you should add an entry for it to /etc/devfs.rules. It should _not_
> > be in /etc/devfs.conf, since usb devices can appear at runtime.
> >
> > (The first line is only needed when you haven't already got a ruleset
> > name.)
> >
> > [foo=10]
> > add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups
> >
> > And in /etc/rc.conf you should add:
> >
> > devfs_system_ruleset="foo"
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Roland
> 
> Alternatively, just put this in /etc/devfs.conf:
> 
> own	ulpt0	root:cups
> perm	ulpt0	0664
> 

This will only work if the printer is connected and switched on at boot!

Generally it's better to put USB devices in /etc/devfs.rules.

Roland
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