Dear misc@ readers, Still unable to make my old HP Deskjet F4280 printer working on -current (all was ok in 5.5).
ulpt is disabled during boot stage; the printer is correctly installed (through the CUPS web interface) and device permissions seem ok: just22@poseidon:[~]> sudo usbdevs -dv Controller /dev/usb0: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x8086), rev 1.00 uhub0 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 powered port 4 powered Controller /dev/usb1: addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), Intel(0x8086), rev 1.00 uhub1 port 1 powered port 2 addr 2: high speed, self powered, config 1, Deskjet F4200 series(0x2504), HP(0x03f0), rev 1.00, iSerialNumber CN8C54F12J05BR ugen1 just22@poseidon:[~]> ls -la /dev/usb1 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 61, 1 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/usb1 just22@poseidon:[~]> ls -la /dev/ugen1* crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 16 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.00 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 17 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.01 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 18 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.02 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 19 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.03 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 20 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.04 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 21 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.05 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 22 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.06 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 23 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.07 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 24 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.08 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 25 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.09 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 26 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.10 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 27 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.11 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 28 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.12 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 29 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.13 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 30 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.14 crw-rw---- 1 _cups _saned 63, 31 Aug 13 09:30 /dev/ugen1.15 But hplip GUI insists in reporting a "Device communication error" (which is the exact message I see when ulpt is enabled...). After debugging a bit further, I discovered: just22@poseidon:[~]> sudo /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/usb DEBUG: Loading USB quirks from "/usr/local/share/cups/usb". DEBUG: Loaded 68 quirks. DEBUG: list_devices DEBUG: libusb_get_device_list=9 DEBUG: Failed to check whether 03f0:2504 has the "usblp" kernel module attached which sounds suspicious... Any hints/advices? I'm stuck at the moment. Thanks in advance -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22....@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis