Re: Problem with CUPS

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

César Catrián Carreño <ccatrian%eml.cc@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:15:21 -0400
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> I've added a patch to disable the use of the back channel.  If you've
>> tried cups 1.2.x and failed to print on a USB printer, please update and
>> try again, and let me know if this helps.  I don't want to report this
>> upstream until we have more confidence that we understand what's going
>> on.
>>
>
> I've tried the patch and now I can print with CUPS 1.2.10 .
>
> Note that there are some lost features; the status of the printer is
> not pulled out to the web interface as before (ie. printer shown as
> ready to work, when it is turned off), and I don't know if "Plug and
> print" works neither because my printer wasn't detected since the
> beginning.

That's odd - as far as I can tell reading from usb printers has never
worked on NetBSD, so I don't know how it used to do that.

The patch has also been applied to CUPS subversion and thus should be in
future releases.