On 4/12/07, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible for you to upgrade to the latest hplip from source? > > A > > > On 4/12/07, Julen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've my old Deskjet 690c connected to the parallel port of my server. > > Printing works using CUPS, although in the web interface I can see "hp > > no_device_found" when selecting the device (at the moment I've > > selected LPT#1, which works). > > > > That doesn't affect if anybody in the LAN wants to send a job to the > > printer: it prints. > > The problem starts when I want to align the cartridges or clean them, > > because I can't use hplip's tools. > > > > Until some days ago my thought was that parallel port wasn't supported > > by hplip, since I was using Debian sarge and the included hplip > > package was old and I read somewhere that parallel wasn't supported > > for that version. > > > > Now I've upgraded to etch and hplip version is 1.6.10. But the problem > > persists. This is the output from "hp-setup -g": > > > > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.6.10) > > Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 3.1 > > > > Copyright (c) 2003-6 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP > > This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > > This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it > > under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. > > > > 0 > > error: No display found. Reverting to interactive mode. > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: (xmit) Sending data on channel (6) > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: > > > 'msg=probedevicesfiltered\nfilter=none\nbus=par,usb\nformat=cups\ntimeout=5\nttl=4\n' > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: (xmit) Reading data on channel (6) > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: > > > 'msg=probedevicesfilteredresult\nresult-code=0\nnum-devices=0\nencoding=none\nlength=0\ndata:\n' > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: [] > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: [<cupsext.Printer object at 0x403c5250>] > > error: No devices found. > > hp-setup[2981]: debug: Exception: 18 (No probed devices found) > > error: Error occured during interactive mode. Exiting. > > > > Well, the first error can be omitted since I'm connecting from terminal. > > > > I've read that "ppdev" module has to be loaded in order to get this > > working an "parport" too. These are the modules I've loaded related to > > the parallel port: > > > > lp 11496 0 > > ppdev 10180 0 > > parport_pc 37796 1 > > parport 43272 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp > > > > > > I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I can't get this working. Any ideas? > > > > Thanks a lot, > > > > > > Julen.
I'm sorry but I have to install too many "unnecessary" packages in order to compile from source and it's not possible at the moment. Also, I prefer having the installed stuff ordered in the way dpkg does. Any other suggestions? Thanks, Julen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
