Drapper Flight 7 does not detect usb printer

[Antoni Aloy]

I have an Epson STYLUS PHOTO RX640 and I have connected to my Ubuntu Flight 7 on the PPC distribution.

dmesg detects the usb connection, but when I try to configure the printer nor Cups neither the gnome printer configuration detects any printer connected.

The cups web interfaces does not permits any usb connection either.

This is a multifunction system and the scanner is not detected.

On the previus Ubuntu version the printer was detected as RX600 printer.

[clemens (clemens-endorphin)]

cups assumes (at least in final drapper) that usb printer live under /dev/usb/lp*.
The udev rule doesn't match that assumption. I had to change:
--- 20-names.rules~ 2002-01-18 04:16:54.000000000 +0100
+++ 20-names.rules 2002-01-18 04:16:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
 BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*", NAME="scd%n"

 # USB printers need to be /dev/usb*
-BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb%k"
+BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"

 # Other devices
 KERNEL=="hw_random", NAME="hwrng"

Maybe /dev/usblpX should also symlink to /dev/usb/lpX, maybe the other way round, or maybe we should just fix cups. However, it's inconsistant in Dapper ATM.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Hi.

Does this issue still happen? Have you tried final Dapper or even Edgy?

[Antoni Aloy (antoni-aloy-gmail)]

2006/12/12, Jonh Wendell <email address hidden>:
> Hi.
>
> Does this issue still happen? Have you tried final Dapper or even Edgy?
>
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> Drapper Flight 7 does not detect usb printer
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44099
>
Now it detect the printer, but it has other annoing "features":
 * Every time I turn on the printer Ubuntu detects it ant tries to install it.
 * The scanner does not work anymore. On Dapper I had scanner but no
printer, now I have printer but no scanner ;)
 * The guttenprint drivers does not work on this printer EPSON Stylus
PHOTO RX 640, just prints blank pages, and I have to use the Stylus
color 600 driver, which has a poor resolution on normal paper. I some
forums I have read the the drivers for EPSON Stylus PHOTO RX 630
should work fine, but not in my situation. Perhaps come PPC related
issues.

Best regards,

--
Antoni Aloy López
Binissalem - Mallorca
http://www.trespams.com
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[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Still not fixed on Feisty ?

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

At Feisty..

# USB printers need to be /dev/usb*
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb%k"

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Fixed in feisty