Contents of yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #7 - 13 msg 9

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Well, normally I would agree, but the new header specifically says to use
that subject line.        -DG

> From: "Pete Peters" <ppeters914@attbi.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:53:47 -0700
> To: "'Daniel Gimpelevich'" <Daniel_Gimpelevich@compuserve.com>
> Subject: RE: Contents of yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #7 - 13 msg 9
> 
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> I don't have an answer, but I bet a lot of people (and some who might have
> an answer) automatically deleted your post withoug reading anything more
> than your subject line: "Contents of yellowdog-general digest...." Hmmmmmm,
> doesn't really sound like a USB printing problem description. You also did
> not provide any further info, like model Mac, version YDL, etc, etc.
> 
> People on this list are quite willing to help if you provide enough
> information. I suggest you rewrite and repost your request.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
> Of Daniel Gimpelevich
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:05 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Contents of yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #7 - 13 msg 9
> 
> 
> I have an Epson 1200 in /dev/usb/lp0 and am trying to get the stp driver
> offered in printconf to at least print a test page to no avail. Help!!!
> 
> 
>> --__--__--
>> 
>> Message: 9
>> Subject: Re: USB printing problem
>> From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Date: 29 Mar 2002 21:33:55 -0700
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> 
>> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 19:42, Joseph Strafach wrote:
>>> I've downloaded, unzipped, compiled the source code from the CUPS site.
>>> I started the drivers with /etc/init.d/cups start. Opened up mozilla
>>> browser and loaded up localhost:631 to add my epson 740 printer.
>>> everything went great until I tried to print a test page. I received
>>> this error-/Unable to open USB port device file "/dev/usb/lp0": No such
>>> device"/
>>> 
>>> I've tried other ports and the other Epson drivers with the same result.
>>> My computer is a powermac G4/400 running YDL 2.2. Printing was fine
>>> until I decided to wipe my hard drive and do a clean install of YDL. I
>>> previosly was using YDL 2.1 with little or no problems thanks to all the
>>> help from this list.
>> 
>> 
>> Did you try "printconf"? The new print system in 2.2 is much improved.
>> It isn't CUPS, but it works fine with my USB based Epson Stylus that
>> was a pain in 2.1....
>> 
>> -Dan
>> 
>> --__--__--
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