HP DeskJet 3520 / Linux / CUPS Issues?

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 05:25 PM

I'm trying to install my HP DeskJet 3520. I have Slackware 10 with the 2.4.xx kernel. The printer is USB.

I installed the latest hpijs drivers and have the CUPS that's in the Slackware -current upgrade from Swaret.

I don't have X on the system, so everything is done by command line.

I can install everything from http://localhost:631

It says the printer is ready and is accepting connections, and shows the serial number and everything.

When I try to print a test page from http://localhost:631, nothing prints. When I check the Job info, it says the job was aborted.

Any ideas?

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 05:37 PM

Do you have foomatic-db and foomatic-filters installed,also some people have had to reinstall cups to get it to work,that printer should work.

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 06:12 PM

I didn't have that installed, but I just did, and reinstalled CUPS through Swaret (uninstalled and reinstalled).

Same issue

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 06:26 PM

try this;

Code:

# touch test.txt
# echo "Hello World" > test.txt
# cat test.txt > /dev/usb/lp0

what happens?

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 06:43 PM

Nothing. No errors or anything.

do I have to do anything with the foomatic packages after they are installed?

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 06:47 PM

post lsmod

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 06:49 PM

Module Size Used by Not tainted
lp 6724 0 (autoclean)
printer 7744 0
parport_pc 14788 1
parport 23336 1 [lp parport_pc]
uhci 24444 0 (unused)
usbcore 59308 1 [printer uhci]
ide-scsi 9328 0
tulip 40352 1
crc32 2880 0 [tulip]
agpgart 43940 0 (unused)

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 07:28 PM

modprobe usblp
what happens,nothing is good
then /etc/init.d/cupsd restart or how slackware stops then starts cups

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 07:30 PM

modprobe: Can't locate module usblp

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 07:43 PM

May be compiled in the kernel,if you want we can try this;
Use the output of the first two grep statements to fill in the last foomatic-configure command)
# grep $printer_model /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer/*
# grep $printer_ID /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/*
# foomatic-configure -s cups -p $printer_model_number -c file:$print_device_path -n queue name -d driver
It will be like this;
foomatic-configure -s cups -p HP-DeskJet_3520 -c file:/dev/usb/lp0 -n HP -d hpijs
restart cups chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups /etc/rc.d/rc.cups stop /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start
If that works go to localhost:631 and you should see a printer HP,try and print a test page

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 07:55 PM

The first two grep statements didn't return anything.

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 08:00 PM

cd /usr/share
ls
is foomatic there?you need it to print with hpjis

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 08:00 PM

I put in your command for foomatic-configure and it created a new printer, but the same thing happens when i try to print a test page from CUPS

mindfrost82 · 02-01-2005, 08:01 PM

It's under /usr/local/share

comprookie2000 · 02-01-2005, 08:07 PM

try dmesg | tail we should see somthing like
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 2
printer.c: usblp0: USB bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x1104
also found this;
Make sure you don't have lprng running, if you even still have it on your system. Me, I like to remove lprng with pkgtool to make sure there are no conflicts.also this

For others who may need to know this, you can get a debug log for cups this way:

<< Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (or wherever this configuration file is installed in your case) to have the line "LogLevel debug" there. Then restart your CUPS daemon ["/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start" for slackware]...

Now print a job. Watch what is written to your CUPS error log. It normally sits in /var/log/cups/error_log. In debug level, nearly every action of the CUPS daemon is logged. You can see which filters and backends are called in which order. Very often you'll get a hint about what is missing for the print job to succeed. >>