I've been working on this computer with an hp psc 2110 printer for the past couple of weeks trying to get the printing to work. I was doing a full reinstall on this box (for partitioning reasons) so I used an old Mandrake 10.1 beta CD I had laying around. After the install, the printer worked fine with setup without any problems.

Because the CD I had was beta I decided to upgrade the system using one of the mirrors. Having used the cooker repositories on my laptop without any problems I decided to use cooker on this computer as well.

The upgrade did have a few glitches here and there, but for the most part I got everything figured out until I started to try printing. Setting up the printer for the first time (by plugging it in) worked fine, it was auto detected and I got all of the software installed easily enough. However once the computer is restarted the printer no longer works. The job just sits in the que and says processing.

After doing some hunting around on google and forums I tried working with the ptal-init and see what came up. I now get the following error message in a terminal.

ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:2525, dev=<mlc:usb:PSC_2100_Series>, pid=10245, e=16, t=1107009478
Couldn't find device!

I've searched on this but couldn't find anything conclusive. However I have discovered that if I run printerdrake and resetup the connection to the printer, it will start printing again, until the computer is restarted that is.

So, this seems to be to be some sort of order issue, something is getting loaded before it should. I would be happy with just figuring out exactly what printerdrake does when it setups up the connection to a printer so I can just add those commands to my startup scripts if that is what it takes but I am unable to figure out exactly what it is doing.

Any ideas?