CUPS don't detect USB printer

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Feb 10 06:59:20 PST 2009


Artiom wrote:
 > ...
> After searching similar problems on the net I have found a hint that
> changing permissions on the lp0 device can solve the problem. So
> chmod +rw lp0 and it WORKS.
> 
> But evidently after turn off, turn on of the printer lp0 will have
> its default permissions again. I tried to find the cause of the
> ...
> Could you explain me what happens and how to fix it?

This may be "hald" or something similar that is creating the USB
printer devices on-demand.  Normally Linux distributors (and I'm
assuming you are using Linux - you didn't specify...) will make sure
this stuff works out of the box, but it appears that yours doesn't.
Contact your Linux distributor...

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