[sane-devel] HP PSC1200 series and USB problems

[Andrew Sackville-West]

I've encountered in interesting problem when scanning with my hppsc1210. 
Its on USB. After scanning, all my other USB devices are offline. The 
printer function won't work, my USB connected cable modem goes down etc. 
its really weird because ifconfig shows the interface still there, but I 
have to ifdown and ifup to get it to work again. Some mysterious 
combination of shutting off the printer, stopping it in print management 
etc seems to get the printer rolling again. obviously, this is a pain.

here's my set-up

knoppix 3.6
kernel 2.4.27

xscanimage --version shows 1.0.13
kpackage shows that we've got 1.0.13-2 version of SANE
hpoj .091 (i think)

i've tried a variety of front-ends (kooka, xsane, xscanimage) all to no 
avail.

I did start playing around a little bit and found multiple instance of 
ptal-mlcd running, I picked one and killed it, and everything seemed to 
be better, but I don't know if it was that specific instance or the fact 
that there were 2 running?

any thoughts?

thanks

Andrew