Oi, To recognize the USB printer support CUPS needs some things in the USB configuration. At first USB support has to be loaded before the CUPS daemon is loaded at boot time. For CUPS I have set the same boot priority as for LPD because it is a printer daemon: /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd: # chkconfig: 2345 60 60 /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups: # chkconfig: 2345 60 60 The current configuration of usb is: # chkconfig: 2345 84 30 I would recommend # chkconfig: 2345 3 99 So USB is loaded early and even network access by USB would be no problem because USB is loaded before all daemons are loaded. I also recommand automatic loading of the USB printer module (modprobe printer) in the USB script, so that USB printers are supported automatically at boot time. What's on with the /proc/bus/usb file system? Another thing in the boot sequence: /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia is loaded very late (chkconfig: 2345 45 96), it should have something like chkconfig: 2345 3 96 that it is also loaded before the network stuff is loaded. Then network connection by PCMCIA cards, even with NIS client, will work out of the box. I always hat to change this when I installed MDK on my notebook. Why not doing it by default. Till
