Can't get my HP PSC 2175 printer to work in Ubuntu 5.10 + Gnome
Hi!
I'm using Ubuntu 5.10 with Gnome (only installed it yesterday, which makes me a newbie) (and I've actually only been on Linux for a few weeks too, which also makes me a newbie ;)) - and I can't get my HP PSC 2175 all-in-one printer to work. I try to print a test page and nothing happens. Could it have something to do with it not being mounted..? When trying to mount it from a GUI window (not the shell) I get Quote:
I also did a search for drivers and ended up here: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. Is this only the source code though? I don't know how to build from source so that feels like a bit of a challenge. Especially if this is not really the problem... When running the /usr/sbin/lsusb line in my shell I get this Code:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:2b11 Hewlett-Packard I don't know what to do. It worked under SuSE 10.0 (at first, then I had to reinstall at one point and after that it stopped working). Any and all suggestions would be much appreciated! |
Check here. the LQ hardware section
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat=205&page=4 |
I'm sorry, but I don't know what I am supposed to get from that...
I have been trying to remove and then add my printer again in but now it doesn't even auto-detect any printers. I was told by someone to try hp-probe and I get this: Code:
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Hey, I'm a newbie. I read that, but it doesn't make sense to me.
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I read here that someone tried "sudo gnome-cups-add" so I did that and got a shitload of messages like this:
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** (gnome-cups-add:25701): WARNING **: Two ppds have driver == 'hpijs (recommended)' I don't know what I'm doing (obviously). I'm just willing to try anything basically. I really need my printer to work. |
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Yes, thank you, I tried that but the next obstacle is that a) it says "Administrative tasks have been disabled for security reasons." and b) I'm prompted for a username and a password that I don't know (it's not my regular username and password).
See this other thread here. |
Try using your username...did that not let you in?
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. :) It doesn't work.
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A really bad way to do it, but quick would be to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
comment out AuthType and AuthClass and change it to look like below. IF YOU DO IT LIKE THIS CHANGE IT BACK WHEN YOU ARE DONE!!!!!!! #AuthType Basic #AuthClass System AuthType None Otherwise, go to the ubuntu site and read how to create the root user and log in like that. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5&pagenumber=2 |
Thank you! Those are good suggestions. I'll give it a go.
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I don't know if it's because it's past midnight or because of plain stupidness, but I have tried commenting out and allowing access for whomever but it still promts for username and password. I'm beginning to doubt my sanity. I would just really like to solve this before going to bed...
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you need to restart cupsd after you edit that file. so it would be
/etc/initd/cupsd restart then try it |
Oh, Ok. I get this though:
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bash: /etc/initd/cupsd: File or directory does not exist |
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