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On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 09:43 -0500, Spackman, Chris wrote: |
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> On 2019/02/17 at 11:39am, IMAP wrote: |
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> > After a long spell of no printing, I'm trying to get my mono laser |
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> > working again. I'm in the lp group, and the USB interface seems to be |
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> > working: |
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> > # lsusb | grep Kyocera |
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> > Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0482:000e Kyocera Corp. FS-1020D Printer |
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> > But the KDE system settings applet can't see the printer, nor can |
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> > Firefox at http://localhost:631/. I've tried adding a manual |
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> > configuration, but the printer is still not found. |
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> Check the permissions on the device. I have a similar problem where for |
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> some reason the permissions on the device get changed to root:usb. It |
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> should be root:lp - at least, when I change to root:lp, the printer |
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> immediately starts working just fine. |
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> |
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> # lsusb |
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> to find the device, bus 003, device 008 in your case |
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> # ls -l /dev/bus/usb/003/008 |
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> to confirm permissions |
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> # chown root:lp /dev/bus/usb/003/008 |
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> to change the permissions |
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> I'm not sure when this started, but I first noticed it a few weeks |
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> ago. Not a huge issue, so I've not put much effort into trying to find |
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> the cause, I'm afraid. |
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Bingo! |
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I don't know how you found that, but I'm sure I never would. |
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Many thanks, Chris. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |