[TriLUG] Why Did My USB Printer Break?

[Randy Barlow]

Alright, so I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after a long 
upgrading-to-kernel-2.6-from-2.4-battle.  I've gotten everything working 
(well, as far as I've discovered so far) except for my USB printer.  It 
was working fine before, but now I get an error when I try to print.  
When I look in the cups web interface deal, and click on Printers, I see 
this: Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs.
/"Unable to open USB device 
"usb://HP/DeskJet%20950C?serial=MY02R1F1ZMJP": No such device".  /I do 
have USB printing enabled in the kernel config, so I don't think that is 
the problem.  I may have seen something funny pertaining to USB in all 
that stuff that flashes up on the screen when the kernel is loading, but 
it went by so fast that I couldn't tell.  Which log does that info go 
into?  Any ideas of what I should check?

Randy