USB to Serial

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark at k-wbookworm.com> wrote:
> Ok, I received the adaper today and it does not work with Ubuntu, out of the
> box. It works with my XP machine with no issues. Any ideas of what to try?
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> I've extracted but right away there is a problem. Upon executing the make
> command per the instructions, I get nothing but errors as follows:
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> keithclark at keithclark-desktop:~/tspdriver/starcupsdrv-2.9.0$ make
> mkdir bin
> # compiling rastertostar filter
> gcc -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -Wall -fPIC -O2 -o bin/rastertostar
> src/rastertostar.c -lcupsimage -lcups
> src/rastertostar.c:33:23: error: cups/cups.h: No such file or directory
> src/rastertostar.c:34:22: error: cups/ppd.h: No such file or directory

Sounds like you have two issues - I don't know about the
serial-to-USB, but it should "just work".

Now on the driver issue - if you want to compile it, you'll need to
install the cups devel package via apt.  Not sure which one, but
probably either 'libcupsys2-dev ' or 'cupsddk'.

Chris