Hello, On Jun 16 13:11 dwelch91 wrote (shortened): > If you are using HPLIP 1.6.6 for fax support, please apply the following > patch. ... > 1. Fixed bug in hpfax: backend that occured during device autodetection > (reported by Till/Henrique)
Seems to be still problematic. I have a HP OfficeJet 7210 accessible only via network with IP 10.10.100.100. The problem is that my /usr/lib64/cups/backend/hpfax reports nothing at all. This results that cupsd doesn't recognize the hpfax backend as a valid backend and therefore I cannot set up a queue: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- caps:~ # lpadmin -p oj7210fax \ -v hpfax:/net/Officejet_7200_series?ip=10.10.100.100 \ -P /usr/share/hplip/fax/ppd/HP-Fax-hplip.ppd -E lpadmin: add-printer (set device) failed: client-error-not-possible ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course "hp-setup 10.10.100.100" also fails with a not too enlightening error message ;-) -------------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR]: Fax queue setup failed. Please restart CUPS and try again. -------------------------------------------------------------------- As a quick and dirty workaround I changed my /usr/lib64/cups/backend/hpfax as follows -------------------------------------------------------------------------- if len( args ) == 0: [...] sock.close() print 'direct hpfax:/no_device_found "HPLIP Fax" "no_device_found" ""' sys.exit(0) if result_code > ERROR_SUCCESS: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- i.e. I simply added the "print" and "sys.exit(0)" lines to get the fallback output in any case and now I can set up a queue. In general: Please do not rely too much on autodetection magic. In particular no result from autodetection magic does not mean in any case that there is actually no device ;-) Autodetection magic is o.k. but please provide a reasonable fallback if autodetection magic fails. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Devel mailing list HPLIP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-devel