Sidewinder X1 Connection problem

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Congratulations, your Linux (and forum) knowledge is growing quickly!

I haven't mentioned it before but the man command is your friend. For example, man dmesg will show you the gory details of this command.

Now back to the printer problem. What USB connector is at the printer end of the cable (The RPi end is USB-A, possible answers are USB-B, microUSB, USB-C)?

If the answer is microUSB (or USB-C), then we need to verify that the cable is a data cable. The best way to test this is if you have a phone or tablet with the same connector. Do the sudo dmesg --clear, plug in device, 'dmesg` experiment. I don't believe I've ever seen a USB-A to USB-B cable not be a data cable.

BTW, instead of starting the experiment with sudo dmesg --clear, you can just plug something in and then use dmesg | tail -n 20 to see the last 20 lines of the kernel ring buffer. The lsusb command will show the currently connected USB devices.

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first of all thanks for the support and the time spent to help me. So, the printer connection is via a type b cable, I tried a couple without success. They work correctly with the laser printer here I suppose it is not a cable problem. Yesterday, browsing through the printer settings I found these parameters, which to me do not say nothing but maybe for you it means something.

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I think you are getting close but I don't know what to do next. I believe your USB-A to USB-B cables are good.

If you can get a monitor close to the printer then with the printer plugged in, use dmesg -w on your SSH terminal and play with the options on the printer screens you showed us. Hopefully you can find a setting that will allow the RPi to see the printer.

You could also try to contact Sidewinder support or perhaps they have community forums where you could ask what settings are needed.

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