Hello. I want to have my Epson Stylus Color 777 printer working in Gentoo. It is connected to a USB port. It does work with Fedora Core 1 and Windows XP. The CPU is an AMD Athlon XP 2000. The motherboard is a SOYO KT333 Dragon Plus.
I have tried both gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.1-r1 kernels. With the 2.4.22 kernel I have loaded the modules usbcore, uhci and printer. With the 2.6.1 kernel I have loaded the moduels usbcore uhci-hcd usblp. hotplug is not set in both kernels. The first step is to make direct access to the printer work. Sending text to the printer device (ls > /dev/usb/lp0) does not work (and the output of ls is not empty). Nothing appears in the printer. Please, help me configure this printer. Some more information related to the printer: # escputil --raw-device /dev/usb/lp0 --status Escputil version 4.3.25, Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type 'escputil -l' for details. Read from printer timed out Read from printer timed out # lsmod | grep -i usb usbcore 63148 1 [printer uhci] # lsmod | grep -i print printer 7232 0 usbcore 63148 1 [printer uhci] # lsmod | grep -i uhci uhci 26684 0 (unused) usbcore 63148 1 [printer uhci] # find /dev -name "lp*" -ls 869 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root Dec 31 1969 /dev/usb/lp0 972 0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Jan 18 22:32 /dev/lp0 -> printers/0 # find /dev -name "print*" -ls 970 0 drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 /dev/printers And here are the relevant messages I get in the system log file: # grep -i usb /var/log/messages [...] Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: registered new driver hub Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 11 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo hub.c: USB hub found Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 10 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo hub.c: USB hub found Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 5 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo hub.c: USB hub found Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo usb.c: registered new driver usblp Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-2, assigned address 2 Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005 # grep -i print /var/log/messages [...] Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver Jan 18 22:32:30 gentoo printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005 Regards. Romildo -- Prof. Jos� Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de Computa��o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. Federal de Ouro Preto http://uber.com.br/romildo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
