<font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/17 Geoffrey Leach <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoff@hughes.net">geoff@hughes.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 07/17/2011 03:23:16 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:<br>
> Does anyone have any experience with this type of cable under linux<br>
> that<br>
> could share some suggestions? I have a USB only PC and an old<br>
> parallel<br>
> printer that I am near and dear to that I would like to continue<br>
> using.<br>
<br>
</div>I have the same situation, and a Belkin cable that works well. Early<br>
kernel versions delivered with Fedora 14 did not always recognize the<br>
printer after the laptop returned from hibernation, so I needed to do<br>
the unplug-plugin thing. Works fine now.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>In my case, I have one cable, don't remember the brand but the printer<div>did never work via USB in F14, The system recognized it but as "usb://unknown"</div><div>and it never printed. Using a PARALLELL TO PARALLELL cable worked fine in many</div>
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