I have installed CUPS from ESP Print Pro on Solaris 10 many hours ago, but I can't seem to get it working.

I have been setting up a lot of different printerqueues through the CUPS admin webinterface, but I always get the same results:

Description: inktjet
Location: localhost
Make and Model: HP DeskJet 960C, 2.7.1
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: localhost:631/ipp (sorry, I can't post URL's here since this is my first post, so I stripped the http)

After sending a job this message keeps on bugging me:
HP_Deskjet_960C "Destination printer does not exist!"

From the commandline I get this:
>lpstat -d
no system default destination

error_log says:

I [03/Nov/2007:16:53:24 -0100] New printer "HP_DeskJet_960C" added by "root".
I [03/Nov/2007:16:53:29 -0100] commptr="?OP=set-printer-options&PRINTER_NAME=HP_DeskJet_960C"
I [03/Nov/2007:16:53:29 -0100] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi" (pid=2199)
I [03/Nov/2007:16:53:50 -0100] commptr=""
I [03/Nov/2007:16:53:50 -0100] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=2200)
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Adding start banner page "none" to job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Adding end banner page "none" to job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Job 29 queued on "HP_DeskJet_960C" by "xfried".
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2203) for job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster (PID 2204) for job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertohpijs (PID 2205) for job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:16 -0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/http (PID 2206) for job 29.
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:20 -0100] commptr=""
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:20 -0100] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/jobs.cgi" (pid=2207)
E [03/Nov/2007:16:55:25 -0100] PID 2206 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/http) stopped with status 4!
E [03/Nov/2007:16:55:25 -0100] [Job 29] Destination printer does not exist!
I [03/Nov/2007:16:55:25 -0100] [Job 29] Backend returned status 4 (stop printer)

More info: The printer is connected to the parallel port at my x86 PC.
I thinks it has something to do with the Device URI, but I am out of clues here.
Have you got any?

TIA

I am closing in on the problem: there seems something wrong at the hardware level.
I just discovered that /dev/lp1 softlink to /devices/isa/lp@1,378:eccp0 is broken. There *is* no lp@1,378:eccp0 in /devices/isa

Checked the BIOS settings for parallel port 378/IRQ7:
There is
- Normal
- ECP + EPP
- ECP
- EPP
- SPP

I relaoded the OS with the "normal" and the "ECP + EPP" setting. No difference.
How do I rebuild the device for lp1 in /devices to make a correct link?

Thanks.

I'm not sure but you can try "devfsadm -v"

Tried that one before, but it didn't work.

Thanks.

Tried that one before, but it didn't work.

Thanks.

P.S I found in the sun forums taht this is a registered bug since 2005.
There is some workaround.
I 'll report back tomorrow.

It is more then tomorrow now, so I 'll hurry. :-) This bug was registered in early 2006. It is fixed in Solaris Nevada, but still not in Solaris 10 upgrade 4, which is a bit silly.
So what is happening?

In Solaris 10 there *is* an ecpp parallel port driver, but it doesn't load on boot. However, I could make it load with "modload".
"modinfo" did confirm this.

To get the driver attached I needed to get this module registered in /etc/driver_aliases: so I did "update_drv -a -i 'lp' ecpp".
The -i parameter takes care of calling "devfsadm" which reads the file driver_aliases and then builds the new devicetree, so that the broken link from lp in /dev to lp@1,378:eccp0 in /devices/isa got fixed.

I guess this problem is not a very big deal for modern solaris users, since most printers nowadays are connected through USB.

Regards.

Thanks for the feed-back !