Has the printer 'ever' worked? What's the parallel port set to in your
BIOS?
A
On 4/13/07, Julen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
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