USB printing problem

[Dan Burcaw]

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