[CVALE] usb lp devices keeps dieing

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:17:50 -0700, "Matt R Hall" <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> > But honestly, I suspect your USB to parallel adapter is a goner.

> how you figure that the adapter is bad instead of the driver?

It looked like it worked before. But it can be driver, certainly.
It's just more probable for hardware to start failing.

> I am getting ready to hook up a
> new USB printer for which I have no JetDirect port available so I
> might benefit from having this information.

Usually usbmon tells your everything, but it's rather a low level
view, similar to tcpdump. There's no other diagnostic but to print.

-- Pete