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
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