USB to Serial

[Chris Mohler]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Keith Clark <keithclark at k-wbookworm.com> wrote:
> Chris Mohler 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?
>>>
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Chris,
>
> Ok, I tried that.  Very same errors!

Did you install this one:  libcupsys2-dev?

It provides:  /usr/include/cups/cups.h

Are you sure the error message is exactly the same, or is it now
missing another file or file(s)?

Chris