Detect USB Printer - Epson CX6400

Rob Blomquist rob.blomquist at verizon.net
Sat Aug 19 23:26:31 UTC 2006


On Friday 18 August 2006 14:32, Roshan Mansinghani wrote:
> I have an Epson CX6400 printer that I connected to my computer via USB
> cable.  When I try to configure it via KDE's Add printer dialog, it does
> not show up in the detected printers area.  Doing an "lsusb" shows that
> nothing is connected.  I was able to detect the printer in windows, so I
> don't think anything is wrong on the hardware side.  I feel like I need to
> modprobe some sort of driver.  Any guesses?

I would first run a "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see what is happening when 
the printer is plugged in. With that kind of output maybe we  can figure out 
what is going on.

Rob

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