[Mageia-dev] What to use instead of /dev/usb/lp*

[Jeff Robins]

Hello,

My wife is trying to use a Xyron Wishblade in Linux with the
graphtecprint program (http://vidar.botfu.org/graphtecprint).  It
looks like the program accesses /dev/usb/lp* directly, which no longer
exists.

Is there a different device that it can open?  I tried /dev/lp* and
the actual usb device from /dev/bus/usb, but opening the device
failed:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 422, in <module>
    dialog.on_rescan_clicked()
  File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 178, in on_rescan_clicked
    scanprinters()
  File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 349, in scanprinters
    id = getprinterident(dev)
  File "./graphtecprint-1.0.1/graphtecprint", line 68, in getprinterident
    x = fcntl.ioctl(f.fileno(), 0x84005001, '\x00' * 256)
IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

I haven't modified the permissions of the device yet, but I don't
think that's the problem.  I couldn't get usb_printerid to work on any
devices either.

Thank you,

Jeff