If the printer is turned on and connected to an active USB port and it does not show up in /proc/bus/usb/devices then it is probably broken. You should also check your kernel logs to see if there is any information in there about what is happening. It could be a bad cable.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Hugh Esco wrote: > Hello all: > > Perhaps this is more of a usb question than a cups question, but I wasn't > quite sure where to turn on this one. About a month or so ago, I ran out of > toner for my Samsung ML-1520. Finally about two weeks ago, I got a new toner > cartridge. But when I installed it, I was left with both the Online/Error > and the Toner Save leds are both glowing green. > > Using lp and the cgi test page button, I am unable to get a job to print. I > purge the stuck jobs, restart the cupsys server and still nothing. I used > cat file.ps > /dev/usb/lp0, which is the port recorded in /etc/printers.conf > as the one which used to work. I get a no such device error. I crawl under > the workbench again, check the physical connections. They all seem to be ok. > But lsusb returns: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsusb > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > without identifying the printer. > > Can anyone please advise me how I might trouble shoot this and get this brand > new printer back up and working? > > Thanks, > -- Hugh > > -- > RCK Computer Services > http://reclaimedcomputers.ca/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
