Virtual Box problems - no USB devices and broken package

[torreydale]

1) Is your XP VM on Service Pack 3?
2) Within the XP VM, are you going to the VirtualBox menu and selecting Devices > USB for the printer and Devices > Optical Drives to select the CD/DVD ROM of your host operating system, which I believe is Linux Lite?

[mandoran]

@firenice03 - oh yes, it's turned on! 


output of lsusb:

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 10d5:1010 Uni Class Technology Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1058:1021 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Elements Desktop (WDBAAU)
Bus 002 Device 013: ID 04a9:1097 Canon, Inc. PIXMA iP5000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c326 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub


@torreydale - no, I have not updated the XP box to Service Pack 3 yet, I fear complications with that now that XP is unsupported etc, but may as well try that next.


When you say within the XP VM, ... well what do you know, the printer is showing in the USB menu now. I will report back if that simple development will solve all my problems.


Big thanks to all in the meantime...

[firenice03]

HHMMM - The Canon IP "should" work in LL...
I added a PIXMA ip100 -- I did have to do some tweaking - If I recall I HAD to install the Canon software, I might of gotten from Canon's website..

HAD is expressed as I messed around forever it wasn't until I installed the SW did it print.. Gimme a few I'll check my notes..
BUT LL does see the Canon
And it may be the same in Windows - try installing the SW in windows to see if it will recognize...

[mandoran]

Things are looking good now in the XP box - I think a combination of the advice solved the problem, and when the printer finally did show up in the VB menu, it was installable. It has not passed all the print tests yet though, but thanks all round are in order, I just need to test it on photos.


Re the Pixma in LL - I got it to work most of the time on an LL laptop after much tweaking, but have not had any luck with it on the desktop. Someone with a Pixma mentioned having had better luck with earlier LL versions as well, and also said full success had eluded them. Not all of the Pixmas have equally good driver support in Linux, and the ip5000 is one of the unlucky ones if I remember correctly.


On the new setup running LL 2.8 everything _seems_ to be fine, but the printer doesn't respond. Print tests come out in one color. Print jobs remain queued. But if the XP box works even all the printer software and utilities will work as well, so that will keep me happy.

[torreydale]

Have you looked at the Linux Lite Help Manual in the section for printers?  From there, you'll find a section on Canon printers.
Menu > Favorites > Help Manual

[mandoran]

Yes, absolutely essential reading for me, and that's what got the printer more or less running on the laptop, which I had never managed before on other distros or much earlier LL versions. That is why I was surprised when the printer acted differently on 2.8 on the new machine.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

I have an HP LaserJet 3100. On THAT printer, you pretty much have to use the software that came with it. It won't work on anything past XP, and won't work on any kind of virtual machine whatsoever.
.
I finally had to dedicate an old laptop on XP to it. I use TeamViewer to transfer files I want to print on it to that machine, and print them from THERE...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[mandoran]

I know the feeling! With my XP laptops all dying, I wanted to put this burden on LL. I've recently run some tests at last, and the printer is looking good now on Virtual Box. I should mark this thread solved. Even if my solution came from bits of the advice, the whole thing will probably provide helpful clues to others...