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Topic: Trying to get CUPS to work, With extension or hplip

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curaga

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Posted: June 24 2007,10:54

After checking the HP site I know why you first didn't get it working:
Minimum HPLIP version for officejet g85 is 0.9.5 and debian oldstable has 0.9.2..

No idea why the one you compiled didn't work. But did the unix way work?

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Juanito

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Posted: June 24 2007,13:20

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But did the unix way work?

I didn't think of that, but:

Code Sample

# echo "Test OfficeJetK80" > /dev/usb/lp0 [nothing happens]
# echo "Test OfficeJetK80" > /dev/usb/lp1
bash: /dev/usb/lp1: No such device
# hp-probe --bus=usb

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.2)
Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.1
...

Device URI Model
----------------------------------------- ----------------
hp:/usb/OfficeJet_K80?serial=ES0911401VOH HP OfficeJet_K80

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Minimum HPLIP version for officejet g85 is 0.9.5 and debian oldstable has 0.9.2..

Thanks, I didn't check that - although I would have thought the printing part would work prior to 0.9.5 and just the fax/scan part would work post 0.9.5.

I'll try to compile hplip-0.9.5 over the top of the oldstable install and see what happens.

curaga

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Posted: June 24 2007,14:04

The unix way should always work..
The fact that nothing happened with /dev/usb/lp0 might say you need a newer kernel..

But try 0.9.5 first

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Posted: June 26 2007,11:10

So, compiling hplip-0.9.5 over the top of the deb installation didn't work, but I seem to have had more success leaving hplip-data and hplip out of the deb installation and then compiling hplip-0.9.5 - this required the following "header debs" before the compile would configure:

libc6-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libtiffxx0, zlib1g-dev, libtiff4-dev, libpng12-dev, libopencdk8-dev, libtasn1-2-dev, libgpg-error0, libgpg-error-dev, libgcrypt11-dev, libgnutls11-dev, libcupsys2-dev, libcupsimage2-dev, libsnmp-perl, libwrap0, libwrap0-dev, libssl-dev, libsnmp5-dev, python2.3 & python-dev

"./configure" and "make" completed without errors but "make install" halted with this error:

Code Sample

if [ "no" = "no" ]; then \
/usr/src/hplip-0.9.5/install-sh -d /etc/hp; \
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 /usr/share/hplip/hplip.conf /etc/hp; \
if [ -d /etc/init.d ]; then \
/usr/bin/install -c /usr/share/hplip/hplip /etc/init.d; \
if [ "" = "" ]; then \
if [ -x /install_initd ]; then \
/install_initd hplip; \
else \
/chkconfig hplip reset; \
fi \
fi \
fi \
fi
/bin/sh: line 1: /chkconfig: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/ramdisk/usr/src/hplip-0.9.5'
make[2]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/ramdisk/usr/src/hplip-0.9.5'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/ramdisk/usr/src/hplip-0.9.5'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

The error notwithstanding, using an HP OfficeJetK80 connected via usb I was able to print a test page - both from cups and using hp-testpage - and, finally, was able to print the cups-admin page and a 2MB jpeg from Firefox.

I guess more investigation is needed to understand why the compile failed and then build an extension/figure out which files need to be added to my backup (I saw Roberts listed these for cups in a post, but I believe more/different ones may be needed with hplip).

Anyway - thanks for the pointers, I seem to be on the right track.

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Posted: June 28 2007,04:00

I found a small application - chkconfig-1.3.30a.tar.bz2 - that cures the "make install" error allowing hplip-0.9.5 to compile and install properly. A while ago there was a post (see here) about the http://localhost:631 connection being refused due to the cpu being too busy after starting the cupsys daemon - this happened to me with an extension I made from the 1st compile attempt and appears to have been cured by using chkconfig in the second compile attempt.

Whilst I can compile hplip and print without problems, I am still unable to print using an extension made from the compile - furthermore, I can only compile from a legacy boot - the hplip "make install" fails whilst copying ppd files on a normal boot.

Maybe the cups installation is machine specific - I compiled on a legacy boot machine, made a unc extension and loaded it on another machine - the quest to make printing/faxing/scanning work continues...

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