Current - USB2 - cups and u[n]lpt devices.

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009, eculp wrote:
> I just rebooted my laptop that I have today's USB2 hopefully with the
> latest USB compatibility, if I understood the GENERIC kernel
> correctly.  I'm using i386 version, up to date as of this morning.
> Ports are completely up to date.  all etc/dev* stuff is as it was with
> USB1.
>
>  From the dmesg I get:
>
> +ugen0.2: <EPSON> at usbus0
> +ulpt0: <USB2.0 Printer> on usbus0
> +ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
> +Symlink: ulpt0 -> usb0.2.1.16
> +Symlink: unlpt0 -> usb0.2.1.17
>
> With localhost:631 I see Unable to open device file "/dev/ulpt0":
> Operation not permitted.  Probably because, there ain't none.  Is
> there something else that I need to do that I didn't do before?
>
> This isn't critical.  I probably print only a few pages a week but I
> do want it to work when something is critical.
>
The devices are there, but invisible.

Also check "usbconfig dump_access" that the ulpt port is reachable by cupsd.

cat /dev/ulpt0 

should work

--HPS