I want no monuments

It’s quite unhappy to discover that your brand new printer is not working at all!

I’ve just bought a HP 1018, usb printer, plugged it into my laptop, downloaded and installed the modules (obviously NOT provided by HP, but rather by rick) and…. no, it wasn’t working.

My kernel was complaining with a “usblp0: error -110 reading printer status”… darn…

After a day of googling, I found this post pointing me to this old email.
So I’ve followed the suggestion: I’ve removed the EHCI module, retried the printing procedure and voilà: my printer greeted me with the CUPS test page! Ahh…

As an explanation, it may be that my laptop (as well as my dekstop, both quite old actually) are not really USB 2.0 compliant, or that maybe the printer itself is declaring the kernel to be, while not really being able to manage it.

And… yes, a whole day of googling… I’ve even thought that, probably, linux geeks just don’t print… they just read PDFs on the screen… oh btw, I’m one of them…

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