From: Miles Lane <miles@megapathdsl.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] Getting 2 usb printers to appear on same ports on
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 20:10:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-98892408201341@msgid-missing> (raw)
Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
>
> This is not just a printer problem. I have multiple USB scanners (up
> to three) connected to my machine. Depending on the order in which
> I power them on they are assigned /dev/usb/scanner[012].
>
> I have to admit that the print queue problem is much worse than what
> Sane does with these, but I would still like to assign one physical
> device to a specific device file.
>
> Would the hot-plugging support be the right place to look for a
> solution?
Yes, such issues should be discussed on
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
as well. I am CCing the list on this reply.
Miles
> Dan Gray <dan@dangray.org> said:
>
> > I have two usb printers, a Brother HL-1250 and a HP 840C and have a large
> > problem with them, when I boot up it seems to be a matter of chance which
> > is found first on the USB bus and which therefore is assigned /dev/usb/lp0
> > and which gets /dev/usb/lp1. Obviously this is making setting up my print
> > queues a nightmare as I have to keep changing them whenever I reboot and
> > the printers get re-assigned. So, how (if at all) do I get the kernel to
> > always assign a particular printer to a given port?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dan
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