CUPS on 6.2-RELEASE-p3: USB port busy; will retry in 30 seconds...

[Andreas Scherrer]

On 27/05/07, andreas scherrer <ascherrer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a Samsung ML5000a printer to work on my FreeBSD
> 6.2-RELEASE-p3 box. The Machine has a EPIA Mini-ITX board which has *no*
> parallel port.

<snip...>

> The printer is connected to /dev/unlpt0
>
> crw-rw----  1 root  cups    0,  61 May 26 17:18 /dev/unlpt0
>
> /var/cache/cups is writable by the cups group:
>
> drwxrwxr-x  2 root  cups  512 Apr  3 21:43 cups
>
> If I issue 'echo test > /dev/unlpt0' I get
>
> bash: /dev/unlpt0: Device busy

Update:
Changing the URI of the printer in printers.conf from

usb:/dev/unlpt0 to file:/dev/unlpt0

did not help. The effect is, that cups does not start anymore and i get

Unable to open output file "file:/dev/unlpt0" - Device busy.

in /var/log/cups/error_log

I'm at a loss :(


rgds
andreas