Hi, I have a problem using fax on my HP 7140. I looked around in the archive but didn't find an answer here. Maybe I must do something at the device?
My Problem: hp-sendfax -n -pofficejet_7100_fax -f0XXX foo.pdf results in Sending fax... error: Could not get into active state! error: D/L error state=4 error: Fax send error. My setup: - FC6 - hplip 1.6.12 (even with the FC6 version) - HP 7140 using Network - using LANG=C, LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LAN=POSIX (as I had some problems installing with the installer not using LANG=C) My /var/log/messages python: [15831] error: Unable to set locale. python: hp-sendfax[15827] error: Could not get into active state! python: hp-sendfax[15827] error: D/L error state=4 python: hp-sendfax[15827] error: Fax send error. python: hp-sendfax[15827] error: Error, aborting. python: hp-sendfax[15827] error: Fax send error. python: hpssd[15270] error: Socket error: (104, 'Die Verbindung wurde vom Kommunikationspartner zur\xc3\xbcckgesetzt') My hp-check: HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.12) Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 5.2 Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. --------------- | SYSTEM INFO | --------------- Basic system information: Linux ws20 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Dec 20 14:51:19 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Detected distro (/etc/issue): fedora 6 Detected distro (lsb_release): FedoraCore 6 (Zod) Currently installed HPLIP version... HPLIP 1.6.12 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'. Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file: # hplip.conf [hpiod] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2208 [hpssd] # port=0 (dynamic IP port) port=2207 [hplip] version=1.6.12 jdprobe=0 [dirs] home=/usr/share/hplip run=/var/run ppd=/usr/share/ppd/HP doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-1.6.12 # Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed. [configure] network-build=1 pp-build=0 gui-build=1 scanner-build=1 fax-build=1 installinitd=/usr/lib/lsb/install_initd chkconfig=/sbin/chkconfig internal-tag=1.6.12.15 HPLIP running? Yes, HPLIP is running (OK). HPOJ running? No, HPOJ is not running (OK). Checking Python version... OK, version 2.4.4 installed Checking PyQt version... OK, version 3.16 installed. Checking SIP version... OK, Version 4.4.5 installed ---------------- | DEPENDENCIES | ---------------- Checking for dependency libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library... OK, found. Checking for dependency gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler... OK, found. Checking for dependency SANE - Scanning library... OK, found. Checking for dependency GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer... OK, found. Checking for dependency libjpeg - JPEG library... OK, found. Checking for dependency libpthread - POSIX threads library... OK, found. Checking for dependency make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs... OK, found. Checking for dependency python-devel - Python development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Reportlab - PDF library for Python... OK, found. Checking for dependency PyQt - Qt interface for Python... OK, found. Checking for dependency cups-devel- Common Unix Printing System development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module.... OK, found. Checking for dependency libusb - USB library... OK, found. Checking for dependency scanimage - Shell scanning program... OK, found. Checking for dependency libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language... OK, found. Checking for dependency LSB - Linux Standard Base support... OK, found. Checking for dependency xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE... OK, found. Checking for dependency cups - Common Unix Printing System... OK, found. Checking for dependency Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality... OK, found. ---------------------- | INSTALLED PRINTERS | ---------------------- hp -- Device URI: hp:/net/officejet_7100_series?ip=192.168.2.173 Installed in HPLIP? Yes PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/hp.ppd PPD Description: HP OfficeJet 7100 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Printer status: printer hp is idle. enabled since Wed Jan 3 17:26:02 2007 hpfax ----- Device URI: hpfax:/net/officejet_7100_series?ip=192.168.2.173 Installed in HPLIP? Yes PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/hpfax.ppd PPD Description: HP Fax Printer status: printer hpfax is idle. enabled since Wed Jan 3 17:33:03 2007 officejet_7100 -------------- Device URI: hp:/net/officejet_7100_series?ip=192.168.2.173 Installed in HPLIP? Yes PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/officejet_7100.ppd PPD Description: HP OfficeJet 7140 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Printer status: printer officejet_7100 is idle. enabled since Wed Jan 3 16:31:28 2007 officejet_7100_fax ------------------ Device URI: hpfax:/net/officejet_7100_series?ip=192.168.2.173 Installed in HPLIP? Yes PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/officejet_7100_fax.ppd PPD Description: HP Fax Printer status: printer officejet_7100_fax is idle. enabled since Wed Jan 3 17:43:40 2007 ---------------------- | SANE CONFIGURATION | ---------------------- 'hpaio' in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf'... OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up. Checking output of 'scanimage -L'... device `hpaio:/net/officejet_7100_series?ip=192.168.2.173' is a Hewlett-Packard officejet_7100_series all-in-one --------------------- | PYTHON EXTENSIONS | --------------------- Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension... OK, found. Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension... 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