Hi,
I have spent some time trying to get my All-in-one HP OfficeJet T65 to work using hplip on slackware 10.2 with a 2.6.13 kernel.

The parport_pc module obviously finds the printer:

dmesg | grep parport

parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet T Series
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)

And it is possible to print using lp:/dev/lp0 in CUPS.

However using the HP backend for CUPS to find the device, I only get:
direct hp:/no_device_found "Unknown" "hp no_device_found"

Likewise the hpaio backend for SANE cannot find the device.

Running:

export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128
scanimage -L

gives the following output:

[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of dll to 128.
[dll] sane_init: SANE dll backend version 1.0.11 from sane-backends 1.0.16
[dll] sane_init: reading dll.conf
[dll] add_backend: adding backend `net'
[dll] add_backend: adding backend `hpaio'
[dll] sane_get_devices
[dll] load: searching backend `hpaio' in `/usr/lib/sane'
[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-hpaio.so.1'
[dll] init: initializing backend `hpaio'
[dll] init: backend `hpaio' is version 1.0.6
[dll] load: searching backend `net' in `/usr/lib/sane'
[dll] load: trying to load `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-net.so.1'
[dll] load: dlopen()ing `/usr/lib/sane/libsane-net.so.1'
[dll] init: initializing backend `net'
[dll] init: backend `net' is version 1.0.16
[dll] sane_get_devices: found 0 devices

No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation
which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
[dll] sane_exit: exiting
[dll] sane_exit: calling backend `hpaio's exit function
[dll] sane_exit: calling backend `net's exit function
[dll] sane_exit: finished

This obviously means that I cannot scan.

All in all I am pretty much lost as to which approach to try now.

My only clue now is that udev does not create a /dev/parport0 device even though I have tried configuring /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules so that it should be created.

If anyone has tried something similar, found a solution or just has a clue how to get udev to make a /dev/parport device, then your help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

kris_kiil

Hi

I have managed to find part of the solution.

The assuption I had made, that the hp backends were looking for /dev/parportN devices was correct. So making the device node made them able to recognize my T65. I did this by adding th following to the /etc/udev/scripts/make_extra_nodes.sh script.

# Create the parallel port device
if [ ! -r /dev/parport0 ]; then
mknod -m 666 /dev/parport0 c 99 0
fi

Scanning still doesn't work though, even if the scanner is recognized. I can attempt to scan, but I get a device busy message from sane, while the display on my T65 says scanning page...
It doesn't feed the paper from the scanners tray though. I expect that this is a bug in the hpaio sane-backend, so that is what I am looking into now.

If anyone has any more info, then feel free to post.

Thanks

Kris_kiil

I have a very simular, if not the same problem, Did you work it out?

cheers

Dan