Enabling USB ports for...stuff/printing...

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:31:28AM -0500, lists at battleface.com wrote:
> Running 4.9-STABLE, CUPS 1.1.19 and I'm trying to get an Epson Photo 
> Stylus 1270 (usb) working with the system and CUPS. So far, no luck. 
> I've walked through the setup for CUPS via http://127.0.0.1:631/. I'm 
> at a loss to figure this out. What am I missing? Here's what I have.
> 
> % ls /dev/ulpt*
> 
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  113,   0 Mar 23 08:16 /dev/ulpt0
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  113,   1 Mar 23 08:16 /dev/ulpt1
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  113,   2 Mar 23 08:16 /dev/ulpt2
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  113,   3 Mar 23 08:16 /dev/ulpt3
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  113,   4 Mar 23 08:16 /dev/ulpt4
> 
> 
> % usbdevs -v
> 
> Controller /dev/usb0:
> addr 1: self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000), AMD(0x0000), rev 
> 1.00
>  port 1 disabled
>  port 2 disabled
>  port 3 disabled
>  port 4 disabled

No printer attached => you can't use it.
Check cabeling and please send your dmesg output if you think cabeling
should be OK.

> My kernel configuration contains the following for usb:
> 
> # USB support
> device          uhci          # UHCI PCI->USB interface
> device          ohci          # OHCI PCI->USB interface
> device          usb           # USB Bus (required)
> device          ugen          # Generic
> device          uhid          # "Human Interface Devices"
> device          ulpt          # Printer
> device          umass         # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and 
> da (done)
> device          ums           # Mouse
> device          uscanner      # Scanners

This should be more then enough for the kernel to get any ulpt
compliant printer running.
However your kernel doesn't know about *any* attached USB device.

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