Public bug reported: My printer (a Brother HL-1450 black and white laser printer) is plugged into my parallel port and switched on.
It is not detected when I try to create a new printer in system-config- printer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/lp0 ls: /dev/lp0: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /dev/lp* ls: /dev/lp*: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep lp lp 12580 0 parport 37448 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lsmod | grep ppdev ppdev 10244 0 parport 37448 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg | grep par [ 84.720602] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware [ 84.737075] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 [ 96.510684] parport_pc: probe of 00:0b failed with error -22 [ 103.216547] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpinfo -v network socket network beh direct hal direct hpfax direct hp network http network ipp network lpd file cups-pdf:/ direct scsi network smb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd Desktop/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ ./printingbuginfo ./printingbuginfo: line 45: arch: command not found grep: /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd: No such file or directory lpstat: No destinations added. printingbuginfo.txt succesfully created. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop$ cat printingbuginfo.txt == System information == Ubuntu Release : 7.10 (gutsy) Desktop Environment: GNOME Architecture : Kernel : 2.6.22-14-generic Locale : LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8 /etc/papersize : a4 == Configured printers == == Installed versions of important printing packages == ii cupsys 1.3.2-1ubuntu7.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.1-0ubuntu8 printer drivers for CUPS ii foo2zjs 20070625-0ubuntu1.1 Support for printing to ZjStream-based print ii foomatic-db 20070919-0ubuntu3 OpenPrinting printer support - database ii foomatic-db-engine 3.0.2-20070719-0ubuntu4 OpenPrinting printer support - programs ii foomatic-db-hpijs 20070813-0ubuntu1 OpenPrinting printer support - database for ii foomatic-filters 3.0.2-20070719-0ubuntu1 OpenPrinting printer support - filters ii hpijs 2.7.7+2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs IJS drive ii hplip 2.7.7.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP) ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.18.2-0ubuntu1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - runtime f ii min12xxw 0.0.9-1build1 Printer driver for KonicaMinolta PagePro 1[2 ii openprinting-ppds 20070919-0ubuntu3 OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript PP ii pnm2ppa 1.12-16 PPM to PPA converter ii pxljr 1.1-0ubuntu1 Driver for HP's Color LaserJet 35xx/36xx col ii splix 1.0.1.1-0ubuntu2 Driver for Samsung's SPL2 (bw) and SPLc (col ii system-config-printer 0.7.75+svn1653-0ubuntu2 Printer configuration GUI Created with printingbuginfo script v1.5 (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript) Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:00:52 +0000 ** Affects: gutenprint (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Parallel port printer not detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177690 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
