At first everything worked fine, now when i want to print something, for example a shipping label im viewing with firefox, it takes so long. i go to print, everything seems fine. about 2 hours later it finally sends the data to the printer and it prints. why is it taking so long? any ideas?

PCLinuxOS .92 - HP Deskjet 5550 USB

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First thing to check is whether or not the USB controller is rev 02, because the printer probably is.

Run the command lspci. In the output, there should be a line in re the USR controller, and which rev it is. If it's rev 01, you will need a new controller.

Trying to run a USB rev 02 device with a USB rev 01 controller results in very slow performance of that device.

Here is my lspci output:

0:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0142 (rev a2)
05:06.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24 )
05:07.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)

What is rev a2 and a3?

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