Problem printing to Epson sylus photo 820 on USB

[Joseph Vlcek]

I'm having trouble printing to Epson sylus photo 820 on USB

The printer is seen as a device by Linux.

I can que up a print job with lp:

# lp temp
request id is stylus-photo-820-1-8 (1 file(s))

lpstat see the job is queued:

# lpstat
stylus-photo-820-1-7    root              7168   Fri 07 Jan 2005 11:53:43 PM EST

lpstat -p shows a HAL error:

lpstat -p
printer stylus-photo-820-1 disabled since Jan 01 00:00 -
        Unable to open HAL device
"hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_4b8_5_100_-1_W02L20112141002550_0"


OK obviously my hal ain't working! ;-)

Please point me to where I can learn:
  What's a HAl?
  Where can I learn about it and this error?

Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong or what I need
to do to resolve this.

I have a 256M removable SanDisk Cruzer Mini plugged into
a USB port and it is showing up just fine so I'm guessing
FC3 is seeing my USB devices but I suspect I'm missing
something for my printer configuration.

Any ideas or direction would be appreciated.

Joe


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Joseph VLcek
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