> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 16 06:36:05 2004 > From: "Steve Kersley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:52:56 -0000 > Subject: LPRng: Problems with HP4200 > > Hi there, > > I've bought a Laserjet 4200 to replace the current printer, but am having > huge problems getting it to work. The problem actually appears to be with > ifhp rather than lprng, so if I'm in the wrong place, please tell me to get > lost ;-) > > If I use an ifhp model=hp5 setting, it prints fine but ifhp's accounting > doesn't work since the 4200 'completes' the job before it really has, so > the page counts don't reflect what they should. > > If I change the ifhp settings to use model=hp4200, it doesn't print. > Either via samba (as the printer is intended to be used), or via lpr from > the command line. The job just stalls in the queue. Lprng spawns a worker > process, ifhp has been called and is running. Strace shows it's sitting in > a loop basically calling stat() on a file called "status", which doesn't > exist (should it?) and gettimeofday(). > > Anyone got any hints on things to try, or ways to fix it? > > Oh, using ifhp 3.5.15 on a gentoo linux box. > > Cheers, > > Steve.
Use snmp status monitoring and pagecount. [ hp4200 ] tc=hp5 status=snmp pagecount=snmp waitend=snmp Patrick Powell ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
