xerox usb printer not recognized in Ubuntu 9.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cups (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cups
This bug report follows the question #99192 that seems without answer.
We are trying to connect a Xerox Phaser 6140 via usb to our Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 x86_64 linux box
(Linux 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux).
The cups version is: 1.4.1-5ubuntu2.1
The same printer works fine when connected via lan, but we need it working via usb ...
The same hardware works fine when booted as Windows XP.
I tried to apply the solution suggested by Garvinrick4 to the question #81362 (Brother HL-2140 USB printer not recognized in printer set up in Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 4), but it seems to give worse results, so I returned to the original state.
I suppose (may be I'm wrong) that the Garvin fixing has been already included in the current Karmic
Here is what I can see:
When we insert the usb connector, the /var/log/message records:
Jan 29 17:32:45 spvi-client3 kernel: [ 7152.187481] usb 2-1.7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
Jan 29 17:32:45 spvi-client3 kernel: [ 7152.300670] usb 2-1.7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 29 17:32:45 spvi-client3 kernel: [ 7152.301861] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x0924 pid 0x3D65
Jan 29 17:32:46 spvi-client3 kernel: [ 7153.331326] usb 2-1.7: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usblp while 'usb' sets config #1
the command lsusb reports:
...
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0924:3d65 Xerox
....
the command "lsmod | grep usb" gives:
usblp 15136 0
usbhid 43968 0
while in /var/log/
E [29/Jan/
E [29/Jan/
W [29/Jan/
reported twice.
I suppose that this means that cups can see that the new device has been attached and that it is able to try to understand how to handle it.
Looking at the error strings, I have seen that the bad lines were missing of their closing quote ".
Thus, I tried a substitute for the usb backend (/usr/lib/
This way, the execution of /usr/lib/
direct usb://Xerox/
DA==;" """
Anyway, with this patch the problem is not solved, because in the error_log is still reported the following error:
W [29/Jan/
I haven't been able to understand what is the reason for this error, thus I returned to the original usb backend.
The result to the command "lpinfo -vv" is always the same (no matter if with the patch or not):
direct scsi
file cups-pdf:/
network ipp
network http
network smb
network beh
direct hp
network socket
network lpd
direct hpfax
network dnssd:/
network dnssd:/
network dnssd:/
network lp
where you can see that the networked interface is well recognized while the "direct usb" is completely missing.
I the other log file (/var/log/
localhost - - [29/Jan/
localhost - root [29/Jan/
Well.... Is there someone that can help me?
Thank you.
I reported basically, the same 'bug' on the KDE Bug Tracking System (https:/ /bugs.kde. org/show_ bug.cgi? id=214932). My Panasonic KX-P4410 printer, connected to one of my laptops USB ports in Kubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 simply isn't recognized by CUPS, so I can't configure it. This same printer, same laptop, same USB port, in Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04 works just fine.