[ale] Linux Mint 17 Not Recognizing Printer Device

[Jim Kinney]

Ah. I recall these systems were having issues with USB earlier. Have you changed kernels? Don't recall results of live CD alternate distro tests.

On November 26, 2014 5:28:06 PM EST, "Stephen R. Blevins" <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:
>I seriously doubt hplip is the root problem.  The more I work with this
>
>the more I am inclined to think it's a USB problem.  It doesn't seem to
>
>matter which USB socket I plug it into, it doesn't show up under lsusb,
>
>or lshw.  I've been having flakey "permission to mount" issues with 
>thumbdrives, too.  None of these issues appear on any forum I am 
>familiar with.
>
>More suggestions?
>
>Stephen R. Blevins
>stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>
>On 11/25/2014 10:37 PM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>> I had the same issue with a Ubuntu box sometime ago.  The problem was
>a
>> broken hplip package (did you have an update done recently? ). The
>> solution was to download the package from the HP site and install it.
>> Others reported that rolling back to an older version would also
>work. I
>> did not try that.
>>
>> On Nov 25, 2014 3:15 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jim.kinney at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     do other usb devices work?
>>
>>     On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Stephen R. Blevins
>>     <stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
><mailto:stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>>
>>     wrote:
>>
>>         I have three systems, one running Linux Mint 13 (32 bit), and
>>         two that are running Linux Mint 17 (32 bit).  I have a
>>         USB-attached printer (HP 895Cse Desket) that these system
>>         suddenly ceased to recognize. Attempting to delete the
>printer
>>         definitions and re-install it doesn't work (the printer is
>not
>>         recognized as being attached to the system and, therefore,
>>         available).
>>
>>         What has me confused is that my Dell Inspirion 1525 laptop,
>>         running Linux Mint 17 (64 bit) does recognize it.  I can't
>>         convert my other systems to 64 bit because their hardware
>won't
>>         support it.
>>
>>         What am I missing?
>>         --
>>         Stephen R. Blevins
>>         stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
><mailto:stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com>
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