problem with USB paralell interface

[Alfredo Lopez]

Sorry my English is not very well, the printer el Panasonic KXP-1124 is Parallel, the interface Manhattan is Parallel-USB, the computer is Sony Vaio, I guess you are right, there are one incompatibility in the software who handle the USB port in the computer, but I dont know how fix it. Thanks for your time

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> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:48:55 -0400
> From: brian.mckee at gmail.com
> To: bastill at adam.com.au; ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: problem with USB paralell interface
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Brian Astill <bastill at adam.com.au> wrote:
> > On Friday 12 September 2008 03:25:42 Alfredo Lopez wrote:
> >> I have a Panasonic KXP-11424, Manhattan Paralell serial
> >> Interface and one Sony Vaio notebook with Ubuntu 8.4 and do not
> >> print all the time, please Help
> >
> > There are two ways of using a serial USB port.  One uses udev to
> > create /dev/ttyUSB0 (or /dev/ttyUSB1) and the other uses libusb
> > and usb:  (that colon is needed).
> > Problem is, the two systems conflict.
> > When you connect your device look in /dev and see if ttyUSB0 has
> > been created.  Then "locate libusb" or use synaptic to see if
> > libusb is installed.  If both things are true, you will need to
> > suppress one of them.
> 
> I'm guessing it's really old fashioned serial - not USB.   The
> Panasonic KXP printers I remember had one or both, but they predate
> USB.   A quick google of that model number got me nowhere. Manhattan
> Parallel was a name brand of A/B switches used for that and other
> things.  All pure speculation of course waiting for the OP to
> comment....
> 
> Brian
> 
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