hp deskjet 5150 wont work for me in gentoo

alienhunter3 · 03-19-2006, 09:15 PM

hi

i have an HP pavilion zd7000 laptop, I just installed the latest version of gentoo on it. I'm trying to install my printer, which is an hp deskjet 5150. I'm using kernell 2.6.11.7 . I compiled the USB printer modules for it. i've installed hplips and hpoj. When I plug it in and look at dmesg | tail, the following appears for my printer:

usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 6 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6204

but when I try to use anything to connect to it, cups, the kde addprinterwizard, or ptal-init setup will all fail to even find it

Does anyone have any experience with a similar problem?

Thanks

DaneM · 03-20-2006, 12:36 AM

Hello.

I'm not familiar with that specific model of printer, but I'll take a stab at it anyway.

First, however, I need some clarification. When you say that it doesn't find it, do you mean that it doesn't give you the option to just pick the autodetected printer (in the configuration frontend), or that once you configure it, it won't print?

If it's the former, try setting it up regardless, and tell it to use the USB port.

--Dane

alienhunter3 · 03-20-2006, 07:58 AM

thanks for responding!

When I use the hp-probe utility, it doesn't detect anything. I tried to use ptal-init setup to find a USB printer, it also couldn't seem to detect a printer. When I tried to set one up manually,using cups and then the kde add printer utility, on usb, and with the correct drivers for the model, nothing happened when I tried to print a test page.

Thanks for the response!

DaneM · 03-20-2006, 12:27 PM

Perhaps you don't have USB printer support enabled in the kernel. It's located in Device Drivers -> USB Printer Support. Using the latest kernel from portage, I noticed that it's not enabled by default.

As you probably know, you will have to recompile your kernel to get this enabled (if it isn't already). There are some great How-Tos on the web for this if you aren't familiar with the process.

--Dane

alienhunter3 · 03-20-2006, 03:24 PM

an excellent suggestion, unfortunately, I checked and had that kernel option set already.

thanks anyway!