Printer (not) detected at last :-O

Further investigation:

If I start Mepis under the 2.4.29 kernel, it correctly detects the printer, adds it to printer menu and prints the test page.

However, if I restart the system under 2.6.10 kernel, the previously detected and listed printer remains in the list, but becomes inaccessible. Here is the IPP Report.

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IPP-Report on Printer1

Attribute
Values
printer-state
0x5
printer-state-reasons
paused
printer-state-message
Unable to open USB device "usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20R300": No such device
printer-is-accepting-jobs
True
printer-up-time
Sun May 29 15:07:35 2005
printer-state-time
Sun May 29 15:06:47 2005
printer-current-time
2005-05-29, 11:07:35 +0000
queued-job-count
1                      (I just tried to print a test page)
printer-uri-supported
ipp://Mepis-Gypsi:631/printers/Printer1
uri-authentication-supported
requesting-user-name
uri-security-supported
none
printer-name
Printer1
printer-location

printer-info
EPSON Stylus Photo R300
printer-more-info
ipp://Mepis-Gypsi:631/printers/Printer1</pre><p>

Can anybody shed light on what is happening? Why kernel 2.6.10 cannot do a routine operation that kernel 2.4.29 does out of the box?

BNK (Dr.Cobalt-60)

Now I tried plugging the USB connector off and replugging it into another USB slot:

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May 30 10:56:23 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2
May 30 10:56:24 Mepis-Gypsi scsi.agent[4559]: update fstab on remove device
May 30 10:56:25 Mepis-Gypsi usb.agent[4573]: update fstab on remove device
May 30 10:56:25 Mepis-Gypsi usb.agent[4586]: update fstab on remove device
May 30 10:56:26 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
May 30 10:56:27 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May 30 10:56:28 Mepis-Gypsi usb.agent[4660]:      usb-storage: loaded successfully
May 30 10:56:28 Mepis-Gypsi usb.agent[4698]:      usblp: loaded successfully
May 30 10:56:28 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0803
May 30 10:56:28 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
May 30 10:56:28 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
May 30 10:56:32 Mepis-Gypsi kernel:   Vendor: EPSON     Model: Stylus Storage    Rev: 1.00
May 30 10:56:32 Mepis-Gypsi kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
May 30 10:56:32 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
May 30 10:56:32 Mepis-Gypsi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
May 30 10:56:41 Mepis-Gypsi scsi.agent[4798]: update fstab on add device
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BNK (Dr.Cobalt-60)

I just checked which modules were loaded when I boot the 2.4.29 system.
Then I did the same check after booting the 2.6.10 system.

THE "usblp" MODULE WAS NOT LOADED.

Next I inserted the "usblp" line into /etc/modules file, rebooted the sysiem, et voila! here is the printer detected and ready to be tested.

Dear MEPIS developers, will you please in future post a note somewhere when you do such jokes!

I am going now to set up the scanner. What kind of hurdles await me there?

BNK (Dr.Cobalt-60)