Yeppers, I can use usbview (http://www.kroah.com/linux-usb/) to see the
devices and the HP shows up in that list.

Any further ideas?

Regards,
Steven

ps: Gentoo kicks some serious butt, the Portage distribution system to
avoid dependency hell is excellent!

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 08:26, Brian Densmore wrote:
> Have you loaded all the necessary modules?
> I believe there is a USB printer module. 
> Do you see the printer in the USB device list?
> 
> Brian D
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steven Hildreth [mailto:s_p_hildreth@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:55 PM
> > To: s_p_hildreth@yahoo.com
> > Cc: kclug@kclug.org
> > Subject: Printing With HP 970cse and CUPS
> > 
> > 
> > Howdy all, got my Gentoo 1.3b up and working great (including 
> > that damn
> > 8 hour OpenOffice compile!) and now onto printing.
> > 
> > I am using a HP Deskjet 970cse via usb. Created the dev node
> > (/dev/usb/lp0) and changed the access to 0644 owner root:lp and put
> > myself into the lp group. 
> > 
> > I created the node as the USB Printer HOWTO suggests to do, 
> > located here
> > http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x342.html
> > 
> > The same error continues to happen as either me or root, so I 
> > dont think
> > it is a permission issue.
> > 
> > When I go to submit a job (be it anything including a test 
> > from the web
> > based administration tool it gives me this error:
> > 'client-error-not-possible'
> > 
> > Thanks for any suggestions!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Steven
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > majordomo@kclug.org
> > 
> 
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