CUPS and USB

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:27:09PM -0400, Martin Duclos wrote:
> Hi,
> printer connected to the cups server with usb cable. The usb cable is not 
> secure on the printer end and whenever the printer moves a little, the 
> cable disconnects. When I reconnect the printer, the server increments the 
> usb id number by one and cups doesn't know about it since the configuration 
> file is set with a static value. The question is, is there some utility or 
> some way to tell the usb controller to reset? For now the only solution I 
> have is to reset the computer...

Well you can unload the uhci/ohci/ehci module (the usb root) and reload
it, that makes it reset the usb controller, although you have to unload
every other usb driver first I suspect.

The correct thing to do would probably be to fix the usb cable problem
instead.  usb cables are normally pretty secure unless the cable or the
port is broken.

Lennart Sorensen
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