Detect USB Printer - Epson CX6400

Roshan Mansinghani rosh1182 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 20 06:48:52 UTC 2006


What I had done is run 'dmesg', then plug in the printer, and run 'dmesg'
again.  I believe this is pretty much the same as running tail -f
/var/log/messages.  Nothing showed up when I did this.

On 8/19/06, Rob Blomquist <rob.blomquist at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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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