Epson CX6400, Win98SE, TRENDnet USB2 Cardbus card, Toshiba Laptop. b0rk.

Everything USB Community : Powered by vBulletin version 2.2.9

Everything USB Community > USB Product Discussions > Inkjet, Laser, Multi-function, Photo Printers > Epson > Epson CX6400, Win98SE, TRENDnet USB2 Cardbus card, Toshiba Laptop. b0rk.

Last Thread Next Thread

Author

Thread

charliek
Newbie

Registered: Aug 2004
Location:
Posts: 3

OS: WinXP Pro SP2

Epson CX6400, Win98SE, TRENDnet USB2 Cardbus card, Toshiba Laptop. b0rk.

Hello folks,

I'm hoping someone herebouts might have an idea as to what I shoud try next to reslove my printing problem.

Attempts to print give an 'error writing to epusb1:'

Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS with current BIOS.

OS is Win98 SE, patched to all current updates before this exercise began.

Installed TRENDnet TU2-PCBUS using latest driver from their website, no problems.

Installed Nikon Coolpix camera software, works fine - device detected when attached to the USB card, and the removable drive created in 'My Compter' transfers fine, and dissapears when the camera is unplugged or turned off. OK so far.

Installed Epson CX6400, plugged it in, and heeded the notice not to turn it on until the install process says to.

First install from included driver CD hung, retried three times, hung three times in different parts of the install process.

Removed all installed components using their own uninstalls, removed remaining device drivers for the Epson.

Re-installed from latest drivers on Epson's website (just the printer driver this time). Installation seems to go fine, and the device is detected and installed when I'm told to turn it on.

Install reports sucess, but attempts to print give an 'error writing to epusb1:' and no ink level data is reported.

I'm wondering if it's too many devices sharing IRQ's - 11 is rather crowded! I guess the USBcard and the CardBus have to share the same irq, if they're card and interface?

Any advice accepted, up to and including sacrificing a black cockerel at dawn.

Cheers

Charlie

--------

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

08-23-2004 03:42 PM

Click here to Send charliek a Private Message

billyd
Forum Moderator
USB Tech Specialist

Registered: Jan 2002
Location:
Posts: 10160

OS: All Windows

Open System Information (MSINFO32.EXE) and navigate to Hardware Resources > IRQs. Click anywhere in the right pane and then press CTRL-A and then CTRL-C. You have copied that data to the clipboard. Paste that data in a reply here.

Have you tried installing on the laptop's standard USB port?

__________________
[size=1]William DeVercelly

Windows 2000 MCSE/MCP/MVP and USB Retail Specialist/Troubleshooter[/size]

[color=blue][size=2][b]Please do not use Private Messaging to ask technical questions. Keep it out in the open.[/b][/size][/color]

[size=1]Please update your virus protection, visit Windows Update and beware that overclocking your CPU can cause odd USB behavior.[/size]

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

08-23-2004 04:27 PM

Click here to Send billyd a Private Message

charliek
Newbie

Registered: Aug 2004
Location:
Posts: 3

OS: WinXP Pro SP2

quote:
Originally posted by billyd
Have you tried installing on the laptop's standard USB port?

I have, just now, and it works fine, which surprised me as I expected the onboard port to be USB 1.1

I still need the cardbus card, as the camera and printer alre likely to be connected at the same time, but that's fine as the camera is working fine on the cardbus card.

It would be nice to be able to plug anything I want into anywhere I want.

Here's the whole sorry IRQ story:

0 System timer
1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
2 Programmable interrupt controller
3 TOSHIBA Internal V.90 Modem
3 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
6 Standard Floppy Disk Controller
5 (free)
7 ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
8 System CMOS/real time clock
11 Toshiba ToPIC95 CardBus Controller
9 (free)
10 (free)
11 Toshiba ToPIC95 CardBus Controller
11 NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Controller
11 NEC USB Open Host Controller
11 NEC USB Open Host Controller
11 ESS Device Manager
11 NEC USB Open Host Controller (E13+)
11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
11 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
12 PS/2 Compatible Mouse Port
13 Numeric data processor
13 SCI IRQ used by ACPI bus
14 Primary IDE controller (single fifo)
14 Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller
15 Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller

This is after I've disabled any unnecessary devices, like DOS sound, COM ports, etc. The LPT port is needed for another printer.

Prior to your suggestion above I'd disabled the onboard USB too.

All of these disablings had to be done in hardware manager 'disable in this profile', as the BIOS is very unsophisticated on this laptop, and allows precious little configuration.

Cheers

Charlie

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

08-23-2004 05:54 PM

billyd
Forum Moderator
USB Tech Specialist

Registered: Jan 2002
Location:
Posts: 10160

OS: All Windows

There is never a good reason to disable the onboard USB port.

Have you looked in the Properties for the Epson printer to see which port it's using? Look and then make sure that it uses a smilar port when connected via Cardbus.

If the printer has a card reader built-in, it may be too much of a strain on the Cardbus slots - they often do not provide enough power for many USB devices.

Re-enable your hardware, but consider upgrading to Win2000 or XP. They are much better with IRQ sharing.

BTW - this is a new unit. You are entitled to Epson support. They may know a lot more than we do.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

08-23-2004 06:26 PM

charliek
Newbie

Registered: Aug 2004
Location:
Posts: 3

OS: WinXP Pro SP2

quote:
Originally posted by billyd
There is never a good reason to disable the onboard USB port.

Well you would appear to be right

The printer is happily working on the onboard port, and not on the cardbus one - it does have a cardreader on it, too, so I suspect you are right about the power across the cardbuss being insufficient.

I notice that the cardbus card has a power in point for boosting its power, but it didn't ship with a power adapter.

It'll be fine as it is for now, and I'll go XP when this machine gets replaced in a year.

Thanks for the helpful advice!

Cheers

Charlie

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

08-23-2004 08:37 PM

All times are GMT. The time now is 04:16 AM.

Last Thread Next Thread

[

Show a Printable Version |

Email This Page to Someone! |

Receive updates to this thread ]

Forum Jump:

Forum Rules:

You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

HTML code is ON
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON