Greetings. I'm new both to this forum and to the powerpc architecture, so please be patient ;)
I have an iMac 266 on which I am running Woody with the stock 2.4.18-newppc kernel. It's been outstanding in every way, until I installed a printer yesterday. It's a DeskJet 1220C connected via USB. In order for it to work, I needed to load the printer.o module (as expected). When printing, half way through the print job the printing stops and the printer abruptly begins outputting gibberish characters and page feeds. Simultaneously, USB locks up, freezing keyboard and mouse. The box is otherwise fine -- the screen refreshes and I can ssh in. When I try to reboot via ssh, I get a hard lockup during shutdown which requires a power-button hardware reset. The logs show me this: Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 +if 0 alt 1 Jul 31 08:36:20 idmac kernel: printer.c: v0.8:USB Printer Device Class driver at the point where I did 'modprobe printer'. Then: Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer +status Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout Jul 31 08:39:10 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -110 reading printer +status Jul 31 08:39:15 idmac kernel: printer.c: usblp0: error -12 reading printer +status At the point where I USB locks up. I've never seen anything like this, but I've never used USB HID before, as my i386 boxes have PS/2 stuff. I assume I ought to log a bug, but to/with whom? I'm not a kernel hacker, so I can't really contribute much on the kernel dev lists. Is this a known issue, and is there a known workaround? I'd like to be able to print :/ Thanks in advance for any wisdom listmembers might be able to send my way! -- Thanasis Kinias Web Developer, Information Technology Graduate Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. Ash nazg durbatul�k, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatul�k agh burzum-ishi krimpatul
