Re: [Epsonepl-users] USB support for EPL-5800L, any good news ????

[Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...>]

Hmm, this is so wrong. You can't even get the LED's on your printer to
blink? Can you do "cat anyfile_or_gabbage > /dev/usb/lp0"
to get the LED's on your printers to blink or the red light
to come on? Note that you need to reset the printer
if you succeed in getting the red light to come on:-).

You do have this line in your "/etc/fstab", or something
similar (anything to do with "usbdevfs"), right?
==========================================================
none            /proc/bus/usb    usbdevfs  defaults         0 0
==========================================================

Forgive me for asking the obvious - you did edit ps2epl
to set the DeviceModel to "EPL5800L", right?

Try one more thing - have *both* the parallel cable
*and* the USB cable connected to your host computer.
./ps2epl file.ps /dev/lp0
./ps2epl file.ps /dev/usb/lp0
should both print the same file. (i.e. you get two printouts.).

Oh, do a "ls -l /dev/usb/lp0". It should looks like this:
====================================================
crw-rw----    1 root     lp       180,   0 Mar 25  2001 /dev/usb/lp0
=====================================================
(the important part is "c" at the beginning, and also
"180, 0" in the middle.) It is possible that some distribution
uses "/dev/usblp0" instead. but you want the "c" and the
"180,0" to be correct for "/dev/usblp0". (don't try to change
anything if they don't agree with what I said here, however).

M. MENARA wrote:
> I just tried the 0.2.2 driver, i didn't get any improvement yet. The printer
> remain silent and didn't respond to the commands. I tried both the ./ps2epl
> xxx.epl > /dev/usv/lp0 and ./ps2epl xxx.ps /dev/usb/lp0 without success...
> 
> Did the same with Mandrake 9.0 (installed on another partition) however, i
> get the same result. The problem seems not related to distributions.
> 
> I'm open to suggestion. Thanks.
>