On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:30:39 -0800, Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > My Brother HL-1440 would print one document before CUPS would stop > printing with the error "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 > seconds...". I traced this down to the CUPS usb backend getting an EIO > out of usblp on the IOCNR_GET_DEVICE_ID IOCTL. Adding the > USBLP_QUIRK_BIDIR fixes the problem but is it the right solution? Adding a quirk is the last resort. We do it when we know that nothing else works. Although Oliver mentioned in the thread that Brother HL-1440 has questionable firmware, I would like to give the investigation another try. Would you be willing to send me a usbmon trace? If yes, please start capturing before the first job, so I see an example that works. -- Pete -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html