Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 18:14:27 -0400 From: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> To: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> Cc: chuckr@chuckr.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer; hplip usb problem Message-ID: <200805231814.39938.amistry@am-productions.biz> In-Reply-To: <200805232117.m4NLHBko097076@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <200805232117.m4NLHBko097076@saturn.kn-bremen.de>
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--nextPart173084592.1SQVip4qEz Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 23 May 2008, Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <48208A9C.8070305@chuckr.org> you write: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >I have been scouring all the data I can, to find printers that do > > duplex printing (that means doublesided printing). I found 3 > > models, but two of them (the HP C7280 and the Canon PIXMA MX850) > > have no public drivers I can find. [...] > > Well, the HP C7280 seems to be supported by hplip: > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/models/photosmart/photosmart_c7200_se >ries.html > > hplip is in ports, > http://www.freshports.org/print/hplip > and an older version (1.7.4a) works fine here with an HP Officejet > 7310 connected via usb, the newer ones (those that no longer have > the hpiod daemon) tho log things like > > May 23 01:22:49 saturn > Officejet_7300_series?serial=3DMY62DQ70PB04HR: io/hpmud/musb.c 1057: > unable to open hp:/usb/Officejet_7300_series?serial=3DMY62DQ70PB04HR > May 23 01:22:50 saturn Officejet_7300_series?serial=3DMY62DQ70PB04HR: > prnt/backend/hp.c 636: INFO: open device failed; will retry in 30 > seconds... > > in syslog and print nothing. But since the hplip page for the > C7280 talks about network you probably can still use it that way, > as this certainly looks like an usb problem. > > To the hplip maintainer: I have taken out ulpt out of the kernel > and then configured the printer via hp-setup as root since I want > to be able to scan too (which incidentally still worked also with > the new version), so maybe things are different when only printing > via ulpt... (like you do when you configure the printer directly > via cups.) Googling the error message I finds quite a few hits for > various linux distros so apparently this is a common problem and > maybe we just have to wait for an upstream fix. > > If anyone has the same problem (and your printer is already > supported by 1.7.4a like mine), you can use anoncvs or > portdowngrade to checkout the old version of the hplip port, you > only need to patch the netsnmp.10 dependency in the port Makefile > to read netsnmp.16 if the rest of your ports are current. This sounds like a configuration problem. Please re-read the=20 pkg-message and send me the requested information. Thanks, =2D-=20 Anish Mistry amistry@am-productions.biz AM Productions http://am-productions.biz/ --nextPart173084592.1SQVip4qEz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkg3QcQACgkQxqA5ziudZT1TjQCfQPjiVNBkoNku/Tz5kWHiCBNH Ln8AoIAwg+moiObiPj8VSBaiSdtxkAZ2 =zZJn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart173084592.1SQVip4qEz--
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