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slosd

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HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

I'm trying to get my HP Deskjet 895cxi to work, but havn't had any luck. It's connected to a USB port using an adapter cable. All drivers mentioned in the wiki are installed.

messages.log when I connect the printer:

Nov 23 15:57:54 localhost kernel: [ 1340.669371] usb 3-1.2: new full speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
Nov 23 15:57:54 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.2"
Nov 23 15:57:54 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Nov 23 15:57:54 localhost kernel: [ 1340.833306] usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305
Nov 23 15:57:54 localhost kernel: [ 1340.833331] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp

When I want to install the printer it isn't listed in Available Printers

What can I do about it?
Thanks

empthollow

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

Those messages don't look like errors to me.  Have you started the cups daemon and added the printer in the web interface?

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slosd

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

The daemon is running and this is all I see when I want to add a printer:

einhard

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Registered: 2010-01-05

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

remove usblp module

$ sudo modprobe -r usblp

restart cupsd

$ sudo rc.d restart cupsd

Now try adding new printer.

If this works then blacklist usblp in some file in /etc/modprobe.d/

Last edited by einhard (2011-11-24 16:33:32)

slosd

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

The same thing is suggested in the Wiki. I tried it again but it doesn't change anything.

/var/log/messages.log:

Nov 25 16:18:28 localhost kernel: [  140.328564] usb 3-1.3: new full speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
Nov 25 16:18:28 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 3, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.3"
Nov 25 16:18:28 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 3, device: 5 was not an MTP device
Nov 25 16:18:30 localhost kernel: [  142.606912] xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: WARN Event TRB for slot 1 ep 0 with no TDs queued?

einhard

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

Do you have hplip package installed?

Is your user in lp and sys groups?

Give output of:

$ lsusb

$ lsmod

slosd

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Re: HP Deskjet 895cxi with USB adapter cable

Sry for my answer taking so long.  I bought a new printer (Brother - they provide their own linux drivers ) since I needed a scanner anyway and I don't want to waste days with trial-and-error for something as essential as printing.

I wasn't able to get it to work with Windows 7 either. My guess is that it simply has something to do with my Parallel-to-USB cable and it probably would work with a normal usb cable. It's weird though that it worked "out of the box" on Ubuntu 10.04 and newer versions which I used before Arch.

Nevertheless thanks for your answers

Last edited by slosd (2011-12-08 19:53:21)