Re: Yast can print but I can't

From: Paul Hands (phands_at_ThisNewsGroupOnly.bomb)
Date: 07/09/03


Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:00:29 +0100

Ken Dere wrote:

> I am running Suse 8.1 with a Cannon 330 bubblejet undere CUPS. It has
> worked just fine in the past.
> For some reason, it has stopped printing. I can go into YAST to
> reconfigure it and it will print out the test page successfully.
>
> I do the following
>
> ~> lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> system default destination: lp
> device for lp: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
> lp accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> printer lp disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
> Unable to open USB port device file "/dev/usb/lp0": No such device
>
> /dev/usb/lp0 does exist, at least when I do a ls
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
Hi,

I gave up with CUPS under 8.1. After many attempts, I removed it, installed
lprng and it worked fine. In 8.2 CUPS seems to be working fine.

P.



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