[Solved] 11.10 doesn't see my USB printer

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David Shochat <david.shochat at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know whether it's the "proposed kernel" referred to in Bug
> 872711, but I noticed that I had 3.0.0-13 in /boot although what was
> running was still 3.0.0-12. By adding 3.0.0-13 to /boot/grub/menu.lst,
> running sudo update-grub and rebooting, I was running 3.0.0-13. At
> this point, I turned on my printer again and went back into the
> session indicator menu->Printers dialog and tried Add again. This time
> my printer was detected and is now working again.


Try running sudo update-grub, instead of editing the menu.lst file. I
suggest you run it now too.

Tell us if it doesn't detect your newer kernel.



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