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I have an HP Deks Jet 5550 connected via a parallel port and I've installed hpijs via pacman.
I have loaded parport, parport_pc and lp as modules.
When I try to configure the printer via localhost:631 I am sometimes told that the parallel port is busy and sometimes that it's all fine - but it never works. Any jobs sent just sit there never working. I have logging set to debug and see no errors
When I run tail /var/log/messages I see nothing about my parallel port at all
Can anyone help me with this?
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I would check your BIOS settings on your computer. there are typically three settings for a parallel port and it might be defaulting to the wrong one for your printer.
This is a place to check:
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Checked the BIOS and there didn't seem to be any obvious settings for a printer or parallel port...
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try just parport-lp & lp .....
Mr Green
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parport-lp not found. I'm using the stock 2.6.10 kernel
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oops parport_lp
Mr Green
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I tried both and they're still not found. Generally, I think, if you enter a hyphen it reads it as an underscore anyway...
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what does
dmesg | grep lp
give you ?
Mr Green
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nothing...
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Then it could be that your bios is not set up ....
I get
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Mr Green
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Changed the bios (spent ages looking this time) and I now get
lp0: using parport0 (polling)
when i do
dmesg | grep lp
But I still get the same problem - and still nothing in the logs. The cups config page says that the parallel port is busy...
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I assume you have followed this ;
Mr Green
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yes I did...
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now it says
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
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http://www.google.co.uk/linux?q=cache:R … 5550&hl=en
shows that your printer is supported
do you Kde or Gnome ? if so try to see if printer is shown
CUPS is a pain to set up (I had problems myself)
stick with it
Mr Green
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I'm not using X as this is for a server which will share the printer - so I'm using the browser interface from my desktop. Don't worry, i will stick at it - I need this printer!
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I'm not making any progress on this. I have no clear error messages. WhenI go into bios my printer wakes up, so it seems like all is connected ok. I set the parallel port to ECP+EPP since that seemed to give the best results - but nothing actually works. Can anyone suggest anything useful I might try? I have no printer...
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To give a little more info. Whenever I try and start a job, the status changes from "idle, accepting jobs" to "parallel port is busy, wil lrety in 30 seconds"
Not sure if that's relevant or not...
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now it says
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
same problem here :?
i have a epson stylus color 600
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