Hi, Further information: Subj: HP Printer With US Robotics Router
Hi, I have an usb HP printer (photosmart 7960) connected to my router (US Robotics 5461 that does not support LPD). My computer is an old IBM 300 PL(384 MB memory and a 40GB HD) dual booted with Xubuntu Gutsy 7.10 and Win98. When I connected my printer directly to my computer, it was instantly detected and the test page printed just fine. Back to the network setup, plugging the wire from printer into back of US Robotics router, I installed the printer using cups (http://localhost:631/) I used the following info to install the printer: IPP/HTTP internet protocol http://192.168.2.1:1631/printers/My_Printer (this is the address the router config page gives for my printer) select manufacturer (HP) and model (photosmart 7960) I printed a test page and got this message in the printers tab: HP7960_Netwk "/usr/lib/cups/backend/http failed" Description: HP_Photosmart_7960_via_Network Location: Office Printer Driver: HP PhotoSmart 7960 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published. Device URI: http://192.168.2.1:1631/printers/My_Printer Here is a cut-and-paste from the Cups error log (with relevant lines I hope): E [04/Nov/2007:13:28:54 +0000] [cups-driverd] Unable to open PPD directory "/opt/share/ppd": No such file or directory E [04/Nov/2007:13:29:40 +0000] [cups-driverd] Unable to open PPD directory "/opt/share/ppd": No such file or directory E [04/Nov/2007:13:31:02 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized E [04/Nov/2007:13:31:20 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized E [04/Nov/2007:13:32:47 +0000] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized E [04/Nov/2007:13:33:36 +0000] [Job 5] Print file was not accepted (server-error-device-error)! E [04/Nov/2007:13:33:36 +0000] PID 6049 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/http) stopped with status 1! E [04/Nov/2007:13:37:48 +0000] Purge-Jobs: Unauthorized The printer seems to have been added to the printer tab no problem so I am not sure on the "CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized" messages. Re the missing directory: In Thunar file manager, I see that the /opt directory is empty. Should I create the directory /share/ppd? (one directory called share and another within it called ppd). If so, can you tell me the command in terminal to do that? I can change directories to get there. What's the command to create a directory? Is it "mkdir" like in DOS? Is this saying it's my router that is not accepting the jobs? There is another option when adding a printer in cups: using HPPrinter(hplip) (rather than "IPP/HTTP internet protocol"). Would that help? Also, when I was struggling with this in Dapper, I also tried downloading the latest hplip setup and running it with: sh hplip-2.7.7.run Then I typed: sudo hp-setup It was unable to detect my printer (with Dapper) Now that I am in Gibbon, should I try "sudo hp-setup"? Or, am I focusing on the wrong thing? I am able to print just fine from my Win98 side on this computer so the router is recognizing MAC address for this hardware. The MAC address stays the same in Ubuntu right? How do I check what MAC address my Ubuntu has? Thanks, in advance for any help on this. -- HP Printer With US Robotics Router https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150012 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
