RE: USB for printer

Pham, QuoiX (quoix.pham@intel.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 14:26:41 -0700


I am currently using Kernel 2.3.18.

-quoi

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Erdfelt [mailto:jerdfelt@sventech.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 2:22 PM
To: Pham, QuoiX
Cc: 'Moritz Franosch'; muc-lists-linux-kernel@moderators.muc.de
Subject: Re: USB for printer

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999, Pham, QuoiX <quoix.pham@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to know how can I print something out to the local printer
via
> USB. I have insmod the usblp.o and printer.o, but when I tried to print a
> testpage to the printer then I received the following message:
>
> Error printing test page to queue lp
> Error reason: lpr:connect: No such file
> or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.

You need to use the USB drivers, not the standard parallel port drivers.
They are available in the 2.3 kernel series.

JE

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