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#1 2009-10-23 01:38:44
- brando56894
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[Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
I haven't had trouble with connecting a printer in awhile (mostly because I havent used my printer in about 9 months) but Ive been trying to get it to work for the past few days and cups acts like everything works correctly but a page never gets printed. Thinking that the problem may have been my tweaked rc.conf i replaced it with the original one and rebooted, in the print manager it showed that a job was queued (since I had just sent one before) and it wouldnt let me do anything with it.
I decided to remove the printer config and reinstall it. Using KDE system settings to install it is slightly confusing (compared to the one in 3.5 atleast) since it only offers the options of new network printer and new printer class under the New Printer group and my printer is connected via usb. I found out before that clicking on the new network printer allowed me to install a local printer but now I cant remember how I did it. Under new network printer I have the following groups: CUPS-PDF,AppSocket/HP JetDirect, Internet Printing Protocol,LPD/LPR Host or Printer, Windows Printer via SAMBA, and other. I have no idea which one to use.
I looked up cups in the wiki and it suggests that you use the web interface to config cups so I tried that also and under adding printers or classes I selected add printer and selected HP Printer (HPLIP) under local printer then hit continue. In the connection field it says "hp" and if I hit continue it doesnt do anything. Im assuming it wants the address of the printer (I remember seeing it before as usb://[address]) but I have no idea what it is.
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#2 2009-10-23 07:57:59
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
Have you tried this?
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#3 2009-10-23 22:25:48
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
Yea usblp never was in my modules array and the cupsd.conf was a current one for 1.4 since this was the first time ive used cups since ive reinstalled, just to be sure I copied the default config to cupsd.conf and the same problems still arise.
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#4 2009-10-23 22:28:59
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
Could you still try "lsmod | grep usblp" just to make sure that usblp is not loaded.
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#5 2009-10-24 00:11:49
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
Like I said before, its not loaded 
[bran@ra /etc/cups]$ lsmod|grep usblp
[bran@ra /etc/cups]$Offline
#6 2009-10-24 06:20:26
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
OK. I wasn't sure, because blacklisting != not loading explicitly. Have you tried this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cup … CUPS_1.4.x ? It solved the problem for me and several others.
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#7 2009-10-24 08:02:09
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
I was installing an Epson RX560 yesterday.
I had usblp blacklisted and plugging in the usb printer showed up in dmesg. Cups (web interface on localhost:631) didn't pick up the "local" printer. I noticed that a new device node was created "/dev/usb/lp0" and also a link to that device "/dev/usblp0".
ln -s /dev/usb/lp0 /dev/lp0When I made a link to lp0, cups spotted it as a local printed which I was able to add. I then stopped cups, edited /etc/cups/printers.conf and changed the link from lp0 to usblp0, and restarted cups.
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#8 2009-10-24 17:07:16
- brando56894
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
mine doesnt even show up in dmesg when I turn it on, nor is it in /dev/usb. I probably should have mentioned this before but its an HP All In One Deskjet 1610.
heres my complete lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 338528 22
it87 28056 0
hwmon_vid 3872 1 it87
vhba 10816 1
loop 19948 0
fuse 74944 6
nvidia 10324072 0
snd_seq_dummy 3588 0
snd_seq_oss 36320 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8640 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 64768 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8372 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
hid_logitech 11744 0
ff_memless 6632 1 hid_logitech
nouveau 668412 0
ttm 50912 1 nouveau
drm_kms_helper 30176 1 nouveau
drm 198272 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 6980 1 nouveau
fan 5704 0
wmi 8000 0
battery 13896 0
joydev 13376 0
thermal 17760 0
ac 5640 0
processor 42364 0
button 7264 0
usbhid 47968 1 hid_logitech
hid 52608 2 hid_logitech,usbhid
snd_hda_codec_realtek 286788 1
ide_cd_mod 33224 0
sr_mod 19556 0
cdrom 41320 2 ide_cd_mod,sr_mod
amd64_edac_mod 23240 0
edac_core 51660 1 amd64_edac_mod
snd_hda_intel 32232 4
k8temp 5760 0
snd_hda_codec 83168 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
sg 33664 0
snd_pcm 91784 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 25424 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10832 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
pcspkr 3296 0
serio_raw 7268 0
evdev 13024 12
r8169 41348 0
mii 5856 1 r8169
snd_hwdep 10056 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_mixer_oss 21024 0
snd 77224 16 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 8768 1 snd
slhc 6624 0
forcedeth 64012 0
rtc_cmos 13756 0
rtc_core 22116 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 3168 1 rtc_core
ext4 361960 1
mbcache 9028 1 ext4
jbd2 97344 1 ext4
crc16 2144 1 ext4
ohci_hcd 27132 0
ehci_hcd 41808 0
usbcore 183764 4 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
ahci 44080 4
i2c_piix4 11536 0
i2c_core 25664 5 nvidia,nouveau,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4
pata_atiixp 6368 0
atiixp 4644 0
ide_core 120576 2 ide_cd_mod,atiixp
pata_acpi 5824 0
ata_generic 6244 0
libata 193612 4 ahci,pata_atiixp,pata_acpi,ata_generic
sd_mod 31848 7
scsi_mod 133528 5 vhba,sr_mod,sg,libata,sd_modEdit: I booted into another install of Chakra that I have that I was using for testing stuff and its pretty clean compared to my other install. I noticed these errors appeared in both of the dmesg logs:
Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 178507
sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Unhandled sense code
sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] Sense Key : 0x3 [current]
sr 5:0:0:0: [sr1] ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x5
end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 1428056
Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 178507Could this be the printer?
This install of chakra has cups 1.3.11 installed and it cant find the printer either nor can kde systemsettings.
Edit 2: I was going to try and test it out in windows 7 to see if it works but I cant install the drivers since they are for the offical release version (build 7600) and Im still running RC1 (build 7100)
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#9 2009-10-26 11:03:11
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
If cups 1.3.11 cannot find your printer either, then the wiki instructions are pretty much worthless. Instead of windows 7 you could try a ubuntu 9.04 live CD. In my experience ubuntu is quite good at automatically detecting and installing printers. Also, 9.04 comes with the same cups version as chakra, so you don't have to deal with anything introduced by the latest cups upgrade.
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#10 2009-10-26 21:40:24
- brando56894
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Re: [Embarassingly Solved By Myself] Installing HP Printer
Wow I really feel like a smacked @$$ now, want to know the reason why the printer didnt show up after my initial attempt to install it? I never reconnected the usb cable to my computer!
After I connected it and ran dmesg|tail and got this:
[bran@ra ~]$ dmesg|tail
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x4811
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access HP PSC 1610 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable diskRan lsmod and saw that usblp was loaded so I blacklisted it in rc.conf and unloaded it manually, went to the cups webpage and added it (it actually appeared in the list twice this time instead of not at all!) with no problems at all, even ran a test page and it worked like a charm.
This one will definitely get added to the list of embarassing computer problems! 
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