rhaynes Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 (edited) Hi, running the linux hplip install from HP and then installing the printer from the cups www admin page did the trick. Thanks, R Haynes ---------------------------------------------- Hi, I am running mandrake 10.0 official. I have a hp 1300 laserjet printing which installed and worked fine until recently until I tried to get a local network printer working. I deleted the printer definition from /etc/cups/printers.conf and used printerdrake to reinstall. I searched for printers and it found the hp 1300 printer on /dev/usb/lp1 (it is a usb printer) and I chose the recommended driver (one of the choices under the laserjet 1300 list). The test files would not print. I exited the printerdrake and tried to print a file. Nothing happened. lpq says the jobs are in the Q. If I run the cups www admin tool it says the printer is not connected, "retrying in 30 seconds...) I have tried to manually change the device to the various usb devices without any luck. I changed the Loglevel in the cups.conf file to debug2 and the error_log file again said printer is not connected. I do remember seeing the device listed on the cups www admin tool when the printer was working as something like /dev/usb/hp%%%1300%%% or something like that. I certainly didn't enter this device. I tried to delete cups ( to see if that is the problem) but then a lpq returns a "can not connect to server" message (or something like that). If I delete cups what do I need to get printing working? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, R Haynes Edited March 17, 2005 by rhaynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 12, 2005 Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php try following step three up to and including 13. if that doesnt work, try running from the top of the screen, following the mandrake configuration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhaynes Posted March 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 Hi, thanks for the link. I will try when I get to work on Monday. Why isn't this configured in Mandrake by default with printerdrake.??? Why does it work sometimes and not others? Again thanks for you help. R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhaynes Posted March 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2005 AFter digging a little more some people seem to think that this is a more general kernel issues and the way the kernel assigns addresses to devices. Anyone have a fix or kernel patch for this? R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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