On Wednesday 01 January 2003 19:31, Omer Zak wrote:
> This looks like an hardware problem (bad contacts or failing USB power
> supply or something which barely meets electrical specs), so an utility to
> look at the USB bus is the best way.
>
> But lacking such a way, try to rule out hardware problems by connecting
> the USB printer to another computer, swapping cable, swapping USB hub (if
> you use one), using a different USB connection.

Of course anything is possible, but I very much doubt there's a hardware 
problem since I already tried all the swapping you suggest. Also, my USB 
scanner works perfectly (even when I swap the scanner and printer 
connections).

> It is possible that there is some spec violation, to which only Mandrake
> 9.0 happens to be sensitive.
I suppose that's still a possibility, but how do I find out? Does anyone know 
of a USB **sniffer**?

-- 
Shlomo Solomon
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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