I'm trying to help my Dad with a problem. He's using KDE 3.5.x and his USB printer stopped working. He can see the printer with "lsusb" so it would appear that USB works, but when he tries to add the printer with the KDE Add Printer Wizard, the choice "Local printer (parallel, serial, USB)" is deactivated. He can't press the radio button to enable it. The other radio buttons are all active except for "Serial Fax/Modem printer".

What can deactivate that button. It happens on both his and my Mom's systems, but they are running the same software, so that doesn't narrow things down, much.

My machine is running the same software, too, and it is enabled for me. I can't figure out what he could be missing to turn off local printer support.

His OS is Ubuntu Jaunty with the semi-official KDE 3.5 installed.

Thanks,

Michael