[gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
I've had no success getting my HP PSC 1610 Inkjet/Scanner connected to CUPS under Gentoo. Of course, there's no such thing as a best printer, but do any subscribers have recommendations for printers they've found easy to connect and use? Either inkjet or low-cost laser. Thanks Carl Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Best printer to use with Gentoo.
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: At OpenPrinting there is no record for your HP PSC 1610 but for HP PSC 1600 which should work perfectly. So yours should be working as well i guess! Are you using the HP drivers? Yes, I've downloaded the recommended hpijs driver, and this should work. The problem is using the localhost:631 interface, I don't know either: 1. The device. It's a USB printer, but the choices are: AppSocket/HP JetDirect Backend Error Handler Internet Printing Protocol (http) Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) LPD/LPR Host or Printer SCSI Printer Serial Port #1 Serial Port #2 None of these seem appropriate. 2. The Device URI. When I check /var/log/messages it gives the mount-point as: /devices/pci:00/:00:10.2/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.3/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0 When supplied to CUPS this results in a successful install after enabling FileDevice in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but printing a test page produces the error message: /usr/libexec/cups/backend//devices/pci failed Many thanks for any assistance with this. Carl Adams. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best printer to use with Gentoo.
Thanks to all who replied to this. Petr Uzel's advice was first up, since I didn't have hplip installed: make sure you have hplip running before configuring cups. Then there should appear something like hp:/ in that list. I've PSC 1610 and it works perfectly. I hope it will help, otherwise, feel free to ask :) Also useful was Sigfrido Ortiz's remarks about USB kernel support. Problem now is the hp: device is hp:/no_device_found Working on this for a bit ... Carl Adams. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS finds printer disconnected.
Neil Bothwick wrote What does ls -l /dev/usb/lp0 show? Answer: ls: /dev/usb/lp0: No such file or directory Hmm! Well done, Neil. Checked in the /dev/ directory and sure enough, there is no /dev/usb but there is /dev/bus/usb/ Tried ls /dev/bus/usb/lp0 and /dev/bus/usb/004/lp0 all with the same result. Not sure where to go from here, but it looks either as though CUPS is assuming an invalid directory structure, or doesn't know how to work with udev. Any further thoughts? Carl Adams. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] CUPS finds printer disconnected.
I'm setting up my first Gentoo installation, and have an HP PSC1610 inkjet connected via USB. Everything seems to be right: - lsusb lists it as Bus 0004 Device 0003: ID 03f0:4811 Hewlett-Packard - the CUPS admin page on port 631 installed and lists it . But: the CUPS page also shows: Description: PSC1610 Location: Workstation Printer State: processing, accepting jobs. Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds... Device URI: usb:/dev/usb/lp0 Any jobs sent to the printer just sit in the queue. The printer works fine in Fedora4/CUPS Can anyone assist? with thanks Carl Adams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
