USB Printer not recognised in FC4

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:01 am, 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

Peter:
Have you seen these messages in the archives at www.linuxprinting.org?
http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/panasonic-list/2004q1/thread.html
I wonder what the difference is between the KX-P7100 and the KX-P7105.

-- cmg