03-04-2006, 02:38 AM
My old lady brought over a HP Officejet 570 (printer/scanner/fax/copier) this evening. I've spent about 4 hours trying to get the thing to work to no avail. Cups is installed (and sees the printer/has the correct driver), I've added parallel port support, pc style hardware, and parallel printer support to the kernel (2.6.14-gentoo-r2). I did what the Gentoo printing guide said.
Here's the message CUPS spits out when I try to print:
[code:1]Description: HP OfficeJet Model 570
Location: Office
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."
Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0[/code:1]
Based on the hours of Googling I've done trying to figure out what's going on, here are the answers to common troubleshooting questions:
[code:1]# echo 'hello' > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address[/code:1]
There's nothing in dmesg that indicates lp0 being set up.
[code:1]# dmesg | grep lp
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4004.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=8009549)
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1[/code:1]
[code:1]# dmesg | grep parport
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 500[/code:1]
[code:1]# cat /proc/ioports[/code:1]
Lists parport0.
[code:1]ls -l /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp2[/code:1]
I don't give a rat's arse about getting anything but the printer working. Any help is appreciated.
Here's the message CUPS spits out when I try to print:
[code:1]Description: HP OfficeJet Model 570
Location: Office
Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
"Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..."
Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0[/code:1]
Based on the hours of Googling I've done trying to figure out what's going on, here are the answers to common troubleshooting questions:
[code:1]# echo 'hello' > /dev/lp0
bash: /dev/lp0: No such device or address[/code:1]
There's nothing in dmesg that indicates lp0 being set up.
[code:1]# dmesg | grep lp
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4004.77 BogoMIPS (lpj=8009549)
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1[/code:1]
[code:1]# dmesg | grep parport
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 500[/code:1]
[code:1]# cat /proc/ioports[/code:1]
Lists parport0.
[code:1]ls -l /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Jul 26 2005 /dev/lp2[/code:1]
I don't give a rat's arse about getting anything but the printer working. Any help is appreciated.