Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 01:53:07 +0200 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: Anish Mistry <amistry@am-productions.biz> Cc: chuckr@chuckr.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying for a duplex printer; hplip usb problem Message-ID: <20080523235307.GA6900@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <200805231814.39938.amistry@am-productions.biz> References: <200805232117.m4NLHBko097076@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <200805231814.39938.amistry@am-productions.biz>
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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:14:27PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > 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=MY62DQ70PB04HR: io/hpmud/musb.c 1057: > > unable to open hp:/usb/Officejet_7300_series?serial=MY62DQ70PB04HR > > May 23 01:22:50 saturn Officejet_7300_series?serial=MY62DQ70PB04HR: > > 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 > pkg-message and send me the requested information. Haha, there you go, works now... Only $diety knows why I didn't see the pkg-message. :) (This may warrant a note in UPDATING tho, at least I didn't forget to check _that_ yet...) Oh and users that want to scan need to be in the cups group now, tho thats probably obvious. Thanx, and sorry for the noise! Juergen
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