Slackware 10.0, 2.6.10 and KDE

I think my USB ports are not working right so my printer does not work.
I do lsmod | grep usb and get this:

usblp 11264 0
usbcore 104312 2 usblp

Shouldnt there be more here?
I have already install the newest cups and driver for my printer and foomatic.
Thanks.

Any of the USB core-devices present?

E.g. usb-uhci, ohci, ehci-hdc?

No just the 2 I posted when i do lsmod.
Somehow I had this working once but the USB stuff is not in the kernel I loaded them manually and I forgot how and what I did to get the USB ports for the printer working.

dmesg | egrep -i "(ehci|ohci|uhci)"

Any hits? I was just wondering whether you compiled
the USB stuff into the kernel rather than using modules.

After I did the line you suggested I got this:

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: BIOS handoff failed (104, 1010001)
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: continuing after BIOS bug...
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem 0xfebffc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-3.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-3.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-3.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: remove, state 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB bus 1 deregistered

I dont know what this all means but I am pretty sure I had used modules before.

Never had that problem myself (and can't be bothered to
start googling for you ;}), but I'd be looking for a BIOS
upgrade for my motherboard right now.


Cheers,
Tink

I went into the bios before upgrading the bios (because that scares me) and I found a USB setting that said USB 2.0 turbo and an option to change it to high speed, so I did and rebooted and now the thing about bios handoff bug is gone when I do dmesg | egrep -i "(ehci|ohci|uhci) I get this now:

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem 0xfebffc00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 26 Oct 2004
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-4.1: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5

and the output of lsmod | grep usb is:

usblp 11264 0
usbcore 104312 3 usblp,ehci_hcd

Well, that's good news, then

Seems like the usb-support in general and the usbprinter
driver are loaded.


Does dmesg produce any output that mentions your
printer at all?


Cheers,
Tink

Yes, I found these 2 lines:

drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04E8 pid 0x300C

drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver

Bump

lpstat -t

lpstat -t gave me this:

scheduler is running
system default destination: Samsung
device for Samsung: usb:/dev/usb/lp0
Samsung accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
printer Samsung disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": Not a directory
Samsung-115 root 14336 Sun 10 Jul 2005 06:37:54 AM UTC
Samsung-116 root 153600 Sun 10 Jul 2005 06:38:27 AM UTC
Samsung-117 root 137216 Sun 10 Jul 2005 06:38:45 AM UTC
Samsung-118 root 19456 Sun 10 Jul 2005 06:39:04 AM UTC
Samsung-119 root 154624 Sun 10 Jul 2005 06:39:37 AM UTC

Also, I keep getting this same line above when I try to configure the printer at localhost:631
I tried to cat lp0 but nothing happens, it just hangs.
/dev/usb/lp0 does exist except like it says, lp0 is a file not directory.

Unable to open USB device "usb:/dev/usb/lp0": Not a directory

Odd ... does /dev/usb/lp0 actually exist?

Yes it does exist but its a file not a directory, and when i do " cat /etc/inittab > /dev/usb/lp0 " the printer makes noise just like its going to print but nothing prints. Ive got toner and paper and the printer was working just about a month ago.

Bump, again. I think Im getting closer, the printer is making noise now, lol.