Re: USB printer stops responding

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I bought a powered hub and longer cable.  Installed it a few minutes
ago - we'll see what happens over the next week or so.

Thanks, all.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn
Andersen<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff Crosby skrev:
> > #2 sounded plausible.  He has the printer behind him with a 6' USB
> > cable plugged into the PC, then a USB hub (nonpowered), then another
> > 6' USB cable.  To test this theory, I swapped him cables as I had a
> Ah, missed that.
>
> Power the hub.  The cables are very long.
>
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