On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 9:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >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. > Nah - none of that trying to tell it what's what. I just kicked it and told it to try again, brother, until it got it right <g>
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