I have an old Laserjet IIp that runs fine off an XP laptop, via a USB to Parallel cable. As I recall I just plugged it all together and XP provided the USB to LPT driver.
I was going to loan the printer to my tenant who has an old win ME laptop. But the ME unit can't see the printer. Properties shows 'USBPRN01 - No devices attached'.
Going into System/Advanced/Drivers shows the yellow questionmark for the USB port and 'bad USBPRN01 driver', so I went looking for a driver. Apparently it doesn't exist, or at least nobody ever mentioned it where Google could hear them. A search for .ini files on the laptop didn't find anything close, and letting Install search the cab files didn't find anything.
Has anyone gotten this to work? It connected so easily on XP that I assumed ME would work as well.
I was going to loan the printer to my tenant who has an old win ME laptop. But the ME unit can't see the printer. Properties shows 'USBPRN01 - No devices attached'.
Going into System/Advanced/Drivers shows the yellow questionmark for the USB port and 'bad USBPRN01 driver', so I went looking for a driver. Apparently it doesn't exist, or at least nobody ever mentioned it where Google could hear them. A search for .ini files on the laptop didn't find anything close, and letting Install search the cab files didn't find anything.
Has anyone gotten this to work? It connected so easily on XP that I assumed ME would work as well.