Cups admin and a USB printer

[Lan Barnes]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:30:40AM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:25:39 -0700, tom goodin <tgoodin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Lan Barnes wrote:
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> > | I'm trying to configure a USB printer using the cups browser
> > | interface. The printer shows up and the USB modules appear to be
> > | loaded (and connected to the printer). However, cups shows the
> > | printer as on the parallel port.
> > |
> > | Is this normal? Shouldn't USB be a serial connection? How do I tell
> > | which serial from a remote connection?
> > |
> > | TIA,
> > |

I'm recalling more about this. Although cups says it's a parallel
printer, the usbcore driver seems to recognize it:

ehci-hcd               19592   0  (unused)
usb-ohci               21160   0  (unused)
usbcore                77696   1  [printer uss720 usb-storage hid
ehci-hcd usb-ohci]

Also, from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf:

-
class: OTHER
bus: USB
detached: 0
driver: unknown
desc: "ATEN International Co. Ltd. UC-1284 Printer Port"
usbclass: 0
usbsubclass: 0
usbprotocol: 0
usbbus: 2
usblevel: 1
usbport: 1
vendorId: 0557
deviceId: 2001

(and later)

-
class: PRINTER
bus: PARALLEL
detached: 0
device: lp0
driver: unknown
desc: "Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 710 Series"
pnpmodel: DESKJET 710C
pnpmfr: HEWLETT-PACKARD
pnpmodes: SCP,VLINK
pnpdesc: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 710 Series

Here is my memory. The MB didn't have a native parallel port, so I
bought a USB-to-parallel attachment that (of course) came w/ a windoze
CD. In my hurry, I thought it would be transparent -- silly me.

The printer is a HP 714C in the 710 series. Evidently the system is
recognizing the printer through the USB query. However, the "driver:
unknown" part of both entries is troubling.

I suspect I should google the "ATEN International Co. Ltd. UC-1284
Printer Port" with "Linux" as a key word, and that's what I'll do after
lunch. If anyone has any other suggestions, I am your grasshopper.

-- 
Lan Barnes                    lan at falleagle.net
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist     858-354-0616