Hi, slackware 11, kernel 2.6.18.5 On my motherboard the parallel printer port apparently went bust and as a remedy I got a parallel-USB-printer-adopter-cable. This is the first time I am using a USB port connection. rc.udev is set to executable. Now after booting I can only print when I run "rc.hotplug start" first. If I read correctly, is that with these new kernels rc.hotplug is not needed any longer since rc.udev takes care of whatever is supposed to do. Here is some output from dmesg: usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ..... drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 pr oto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305 usbcore: registered new driver usblp drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver What would I have to do that the printer is working w/o running hotplug first? I know that I could put the hotplug start command into rc.local, but that does not seem to be the right solution. Thanks & regards -- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
