My setup is this: 3 laptops, in different rooms. A Belkin router, with two USB ports on the back. A HP printer plugged into USB of router.
After almost two months, I have managed to get my laptop to recognize a printer on the system, it just doesn't know where printer is. I can delete all printers, and reboot, run new printer (both in system setting, and in CUPS), and it will automatiically fill in all the information about the printer including serial number (which only started recently), but when I click add printer it says 'No Printer Found". The other day, when trying to load it, I got an error message that install failed wrong address, use this address (gave IP address), it knows where the printer is, it just can't find it. When I try to print something, I get an error message that "Printer is Busy". I have plugged printer directly into laptop, and installed all drivers and can print from it. I also have an external HDD plugged into the back of the router, and I can move files back and forth from it.
Running a lsusb scan revels 8 usb ports available, (2 on laptop, 4 on usb hub hooked to laptop, and two on router), however it does not give the name or id of any device, dmesg reveals "Duplicate IPv6 Address", and gives address of router. I believe that I finally managed to get somewhere when I discovered a firewall on the router, and disabled it. It was in a folder, for something I never use, so I just never opened it. I have tried several different programs from the repository that are supposed to help with network or usb problems, the best I got was to find the usb ports on the router, but never detected anything plugged in. I've searched the internet and ubuntu/kubuntu forums for solutions and even though I found others with same problem, some even solved, I have yet to get my printer going.
Does anyone have any idea what might work? I've been told to give up and move the printer back in the living room beside my chair, but I know this setup will work, just have to find the right solution. If I boot into Windows, there is a special software that came with the router that lets Windows, and Mac OSX, but not linux, communicate with the devices connected to router. I know there is a way to make Linux work, I just need someone to direct me.
Here is part of the output of the Umit NMAP gui,
Scanning router.Workgroup (192.168.2.1) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 445/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 53/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 139/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 9000/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 15:49, 0.25s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Here is an error msg from the Usbview program
Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
After a couple of searches, usbdevf is not to be found on my system. The file /proc/bus/usb/devices, does not exist either, that's a start, just don't know how to correct these problems.Do I just create a new file, or does something need to be installed?
After further searching, the file /etc/fstab doesn't exist. I do have /etc/fstab.d
On further searching I found a help thread on this same situation that gave this information
"It seems that the similar content as was in /proc/bus/usb/devices is now available in /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices. Other interesting places to check for the content from former usbfs are: /dev/bus/usb, /sys/bus/usb and /sys/kernel/debug/usb"
I checked, I have /sys/kernel/debug, but no /usb/devices.
After almost two months, I have managed to get my laptop to recognize a printer on the system, it just doesn't know where printer is. I can delete all printers, and reboot, run new printer (both in system setting, and in CUPS), and it will automatiically fill in all the information about the printer including serial number (which only started recently), but when I click add printer it says 'No Printer Found". The other day, when trying to load it, I got an error message that install failed wrong address, use this address (gave IP address), it knows where the printer is, it just can't find it. When I try to print something, I get an error message that "Printer is Busy". I have plugged printer directly into laptop, and installed all drivers and can print from it. I also have an external HDD plugged into the back of the router, and I can move files back and forth from it.
Running a lsusb scan revels 8 usb ports available, (2 on laptop, 4 on usb hub hooked to laptop, and two on router), however it does not give the name or id of any device, dmesg reveals "Duplicate IPv6 Address", and gives address of router. I believe that I finally managed to get somewhere when I discovered a firewall on the router, and disabled it. It was in a folder, for something I never use, so I just never opened it. I have tried several different programs from the repository that are supposed to help with network or usb problems, the best I got was to find the usb ports on the router, but never detected anything plugged in. I've searched the internet and ubuntu/kubuntu forums for solutions and even though I found others with same problem, some even solved, I have yet to get my printer going.
Does anyone have any idea what might work? I've been told to give up and move the printer back in the living room beside my chair, but I know this setup will work, just have to find the right solution. If I boot into Windows, there is a special software that came with the router that lets Windows, and Mac OSX, but not linux, communicate with the devices connected to router. I know there is a way to make Linux work, I just need someone to direct me.
Here is part of the output of the Umit NMAP gui,
Scanning router.Workgroup (192.168.2.1) [1000 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 445/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 53/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 139/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Discovered open port 9000/tcp on 192.168.2.1
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 15:49, 0.25s elapsed (1000 total ports)
Here is an error msg from the Usbview program
Can not open the file /proc/bus/usb/devices
Verify that you have USB compiled into your kernel, have the USB core modules loaded, and have the usbdevfs filesystem mounted.
After a couple of searches, usbdevf is not to be found on my system. The file /proc/bus/usb/devices, does not exist either, that's a start, just don't know how to correct these problems.Do I just create a new file, or does something need to be installed?
After further searching, the file /etc/fstab doesn't exist. I do have /etc/fstab.d
On further searching I found a help thread on this same situation that gave this information
"It seems that the similar content as was in /proc/bus/usb/devices is now available in /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices. Other interesting places to check for the content from former usbfs are: /dev/bus/usb, /sys/bus/usb and /sys/kernel/debug/usb"
I checked, I have /sys/kernel/debug, but no /usb/devices.
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