[SOLVED] help with epson cx3200 usb printer

jayveesea · 2011-02-27 01:29:06

hello all, i am hoping that someone can help me install my epson cx3200 usb printer.

i have followed the instructions here (to the best of my ability)...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS

and here...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=82489

but when i try to add a printer in CUPS nothing is found.

to summarize i have black listed usblp and added this rule at /etc/udev/rules.d/10-cups-usb.rules...
ATTR{idVendor}=="04b8", ATTR{idProduct}=="0802", MODE:="0664", GROUP:="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}:="yes"

lsusb yields...
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0770 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c312 Logitech, Inc. DeLuxe 250 Keyboard
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 051d:0002 American Power Conversion Uninterruptible Power Supply
Bus 004 Device 009: ID 04b8:0802 Seiko Epson Corp. Stylus CX3200

ls -al /dev/bus/usb/004 yields...
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 Feb 26 19:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 Feb 26 15:08 ..
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 384 Feb 26 15:08 001
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 385 Feb 26 15:08 002
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root lp 189, 392 Feb 26 19:45 009

ls -l /dev/bus/usb/004/009 yields...
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root lp 189, 392 Feb 26 19:45 /dev/bus/usb/004/009

i have also tried reinstalling cups. any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

EDIT:
i also tried unblocking usblp as suggested here...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86304
...but no luck (assuming i did it correctly).

thanks,
j

Last edited by jayveesea (2011-03-02 11:16:03)

nTia89 · 2011-02-27 14:21:54

are you in the lp group ?

jayveesea · 2011-02-27 17:37:02

"are you in the lp group?"

yes, i believe so. groups yields...
lp lpadmin users

nTia89 · 2011-02-27 18:39:01

make sure you blacklist usblp, then power off your printer, reboot your pc
now everything is loaded, power on the printer, finally post "dmesg | tail"

can you post "more rc.conf" and "ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/"

jayveesea · 2011-02-27 20:46:53

after power-up and turning on printer, "dmesg | tail" yields...

EXT3-fs (sdb1): using internal journal
EXT3-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Adding 1903696k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1903696k
forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
chromium-sandbo (3855): /proc/3853/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/3853/oom_score_adj instead.
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3

"ls -al /etc/modprobe.d/" yields...

total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 27 07:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 60 root root 4096 Feb 27 15:30 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 352 Feb 14 13:55 framebuffer_blacklist.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Jan 25 2010 modprobe.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 Jan 21 21:49 nouveau_blacklist.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Dec 14 07:09 usb-load-ehci-first.conf

"more /etc/rc.conf" yields (i took out the lines starting with #)...

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK=""
TIMEZONE=""
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=(fuse !usblp)

USELVM="no"

HOSTNAME="arch"

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus network netfs crond gdm @cups)

nTia89 · 2011-02-27 21:05:37

i see only one thing strange:

i have an epson dx and when i power on it kernel load also usbcore

try to load it before power on your printer

second, could you post if you get some error when you give "/etc/rc.d/cups restart"

jayveesea · 2011-02-27 22:13:10

ok, i turned off printer and rebooted. i tried "modprobe usbcore" before turning on the printer and still nothing in cups. i also tried adding usbcore to /etc/rc.conf (like this... MODULES=(fuse !usblp usbcore)) and then rebooted with printer off, then turned on printer. but still no luck when using cups to find a printer.

"dmesg | tail" yields...

lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
chromium-sandbo (3826): /proc/3824/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/3824/oom_score_adj instead.
usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
DMA write timed out
parport0: FIFO is stuck
parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio
DMA write timed out
parport0: FIFO is stuck
parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio
DMA write timed out

no errors when restarting cups.

maybe i am doing something wrong in cups??? when i try adding the printer i click on "find new printers" button under administration, it asks me to log in so i log in as root.

nTia89 · 2011-02-28 16:47:15

try with "add a new printer"

jayveesea · 2011-03-01 04:29:57

this is what i get when i try to add a printer...

Local Printers: Serial Port #1
Serial Port #2
SCSI Printer
LPT #1
HP Printer (HPLIP)
HP Fax (HPLIP)

i thought that "LPT #1" might be it, but if i continue with that i get a connection type of...

Connection: parallel:/dev/lp0

if i continue with this i can choose 4 different drivers for epson stylus cx3200. i have tried selecting each one, but nothing happens when i try to print a test page.

thanks, j

nTia89 · 2011-03-01 08:31:57

yes is right, LPT is only for parallel port

add new printer must show you USB entry

in my personal use of cups not ever i see the USB entry so i must try more times, opening and closing repeatedly cups page

then also you try to open until you see USB entry.....

jayveesea · 2011-03-02 01:26:38

ok, i now have it working! i followed these steps found here...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=98889

removed cups...
pacman -Rd cups

then installed cups-usblp found here...
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35029

and added usblp to modules in /etc/rc.conf...
MODULES=(fuse usblp)

does anyone know the difference between cups and cups-usblp?

nTia89 · 2011-03-02 10:25:15

in the AUR package libusb is disabled

put tag solved in the title

tri1976 · 2011-04-01 20:32:55

This package also works for epson nx515. For driver, I use gutenprint

Last edited by tri1976 (2011-04-01 21:45:20)

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