Hmm i just saw that the solved tag been applied, wich isn't true.. I just abandonned the idea of installing the printer.

    Flo Apologies, I misread one of the posts.

      12 days later

      I am also having this problem with an Epson Wf-2540 on solus gnome 4.0 I installed the epson-inkjet-printer-escpr package and was able to get it to show up as "Seiko Epson Corp" in lsusb. But when I try to add printer from the gnome printer settings, It doesn't detect it. Here is the full description from lsusb (I did lsusb -D like the previous person)

      10 months later

      I have the same problem and thought I'd try the lsusb thing before installing the escpr driver and it identifies it just fine ( not posting full readout unless someone thinks it'll help)

      There's a troubleshooter in Mate that throws up an interesting su authentication failure and I wonder if that is relevant




      Don't know if any of this is relevant as I'm a bit of a Linux noob but it is strange that my usual admin password throws up an error so I'm wondering if there might be something there...

      Replace the start bit su -c with sudo and try again. I think su is trying to actually login as root which has no password (ie disabled) by default.

      tried it with -c too, but that isn't recognized...
      It looks like i need to try another -option...

      Over the years using Linux on my computers I have run into different kinds of problems with installing printers (CANON, HP, EPSON mainly).
      I discovered https://turboprint.de/ and bought driver software from them.
      Fantastic solutions for all printers I needed to get running under Linux, licences for two-year periods, as far as I can remember off-hand.
      So whenever a printer that needs to be installed doesn't work with the OS-included drivers I check if I still have a valid licence for the turboprint drivers and if not I buy one.
      So, in case you're really under pressure try them!

      I know it's not free software but just being Linux doesn't mean everything is or has to be for free, does it?

        Justin
        I got a slightly different response but now its the timestamp, I tried changing timestamp to catch to clock time but that didn't help...

            SOLUSfiddler I find that a good trick is to dual boot an Arch Linux with my daily driver OS of choice since that often installs the driver automatically, and just reboot to there if I need to use the printer or scanner... #wheretheresawilltheresaworkaround

              No output this time and only some numbers changed in the troubleshoot.txt at the end...


              uploaded the first result again so its easier to compare...