USB Printer not recognised in FC4
akonstam at trinity.edu
akonstam at trinity.edu
Thu Jun 16 13:19:38 UTC 2005
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:01:35PM +1200, Peter McGregor wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to get my Panasonic usb printer to print under redhat core
> 4.
>
> The printer shows up under /proc/bus/usb/devices
>
> T: Bus=02 Lev=02 Prnt=02 Port=03 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
> D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
> P: Vendor=04da ProdID=0f40 Rev= 1.00
> S: Manufacturer=Panasonic
> S: Product=KX-P7100
> C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 48mA
> I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
> E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
> E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
>
> Note that the Driver says (none)
>
> I can't find any mention of Panasonic under sysfs and I am stuck.
>
> All I want to do is set up the printer as a RAW device so that Windows
> users can print to it.
>
> What I think I am trying to do is assign the usblp kernel driver/module
> to the Panasonic. Then hopefully udev will recognise it and create
> something like a /dev/usb/lp0 port
>
> Searching on the web, I have found out a lot about udev but not much
> about what I am trying to do.
>
> I found a short reference to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE which apparently the
> the Kernel uses link to the device...
>
> Fedora Code 4 seems to do things differently when it comes to modules,
> which makes it even harder to find info..
>
> Any help on more docs on this topic or direct answers would be
> appreciated
>
> Thank you
>
> Peter McGregor
>
>
>
This may not help, but it seems to me that usb protocol is one of the
options in the CUPS web interface for setting up a printer.
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