CUPS & strange USB printers problem

juice juice at dwe.pl
Sat Oct 23 03:17:27 PDT 2004


Look at this:
- I,ve got 2 usb printers connected:
     crw-rw----  1 root 180, 1 sty  1  1970 lp1
     crw-rw----  1 root 180, 0 sty  1  1970 lp0
- but something is weird, when I try to localize, which is which:Oct 23 12:08:40 [kernel] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 5
Oct 23 12:08:40 [kernel] usb 1-1: Product: HP Color Inkjet CP1700
Oct 23 12:08:40 [kernel] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Oct 23 12:08:40 [kernel] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: SG245311310T
Oct 23 12:08:41 [kernel] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x0312
Oct 23 12:09:23 [kernel] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6
Oct 23 12:09:23 [kernel] usb 1-2: Product: hp LaserJet 1300
Oct 23 12:09:23 [kernel] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Oct 23 12:09:23 [kernel] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 00CNBD261757
Oct 23 12:09:23 [kernel] drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1017

BOTH ARE CONNECTED AS /dev/usb/lp0!!
does anyone know any kind of solution?
my box is gentoo with 2.6.8 kernel
desperated
J





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