[ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

[Rob Beard]

Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 2009/7/14 Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk>:
>   
>> That's what I did.  The settings indicated that the USB port was
>> enabled.  It appeared in the menu with the printer as seen by the VB
>> container.  But it was greyed out and I couldn't tick the box. So
>> although it was seen, it wasn't actually passing the port through to the
>> client OS...
>>
>> --
>> Blessings
>>
>> Wulfmann
>>     
>
> Sorry, I'm out of ideas now.
>
> Neil.
>   
I've seen something like this with a couple of USB devices.  It turns 
out to be a module had loaded for the device and hence was tying up the 
device.  After unloading the module I was able to attach the device to 
the Virtual Box client.

Might be worth having a look to see if your printer loads any modules 
when it is turned on/attached and if so, try unloading these modules and 
then start Virtual Box.

Rob