On Monday 19 Jan 2004 01:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> # 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 "lp*" -ls
  1242    0 crw-rw----   1 root lp   Jan 18 23:29 /dev/lp0
  1243    0 crw-rw----   1 root lp   Jan 18 23:29 /dev/lp1
  1244    0 crw-rw----   1 root lp   Jan 18 23:29 /dev/lp2
  2284    0 crw-rw----   1 root root Jan  1  1970 /dev/usb/lp0

...so perhaps change group ownership to lp
>
> # find /dev -name "print*" -ls
>    970    0 drwxr-xr-x   1 root root 0 Dec 31  1969 /dev/printers 
 
$ find /dev -name "print*" -ls
  2227    0 drwxr-xr-x   1 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/printers
$ ls -l /dev/printers
total 0
crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root       6,   0 Jan  1  1970 0

> 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
>
Looks like modules are loaded OK and the printer is discovered, so I 
would check the permissions of the device files.

Peter
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