The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb. Once set, though, it seems entirely stable.
Anne
Indeed, to my mind the detection software needs re-examining. It's "auto" is a bit erratic. Indeed , it's first choice is always,
| dot | /dev/lp0 |blank| /dev/usb/lp0 when the device is actually /dev/usb/lp0
so you select , |dot| /dev/usb/lp0 and still it manages to select /dev/usb/lp1
so then, one tries again doing the job "manually"
it comes up /dev/lp0
which you manually retype to /dev/usb/lp0 but the change does not "take" , no matter what you do.
Only way is to remove the device entirely and start again and hope next time it does it right.
The conclusion I came to was that "auto detection" doesn't really work as such, it's just an outright guess, based on probabilities that most local printers are parrallel port printers, and if not that,then usb printers. Well OK , but when the user know's what port it is likely to be on, it ought to let you change it back to what you believe is correct , and test. Trouble is it doesn't.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to of noticed this.
John
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