Re: [hpoj-devel] OfficeJet 4100 - can't get this printer to work with HPOJ 0.91

[Darren C. <dc...@ws...>]

Hi all,

Searching the archives I find that I an having this exact same problem 
with my OfficeJet 7110.  I am running debian unstable using libusb 
0.1.8 (latest stable), hpoj 0.91-4 and hpijs 1.5.  ptal-init gives me 
the

Probing "/dev/usb/lp0"...
     *** Found "officejet 7100 series" but failed to communicate with it!
     *** Elapsed time for this attempt was 6 second(s).
     *** Check syslog file for ptal-mlcd error messages.
     *** See hpoj documentation for troubleshooting information.

 From dmesg I see no errors, the relevant stuff is

usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2/2, assigned device number 3
usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x3f0/0x2611) is not claimed by any 
active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0

likewise there are now errors in the cups log.  In /var/log/messages I 
see the same as in dmesg.  In /var/log/syslog I see:

Mar 26 08:39:21 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: SYSLOG at ExMgr.cpp:652, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe>, pid=1218, e=2, t=1080319161         ptal-mlcd 
successfully initialized.
Mar 26 08:39:22 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: SYSLOG at ExMgr.cpp:652, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe>, pid=1225, e=111, t=1080319162         ptal-mlcd 
successfully initialized.
Mar 26 08:39:22 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:4063, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe@/dev/usb/lp0>, pid=1225, e=22, t=1080319162         
libusbFindDevice: Couldn't find device!
Mar 26 08:39:27 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: ERROR at 
transport/ExMlcCommandChannel.cpp:251, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe@/dev/usb/lp0>, pid=1225, e=22, t=1080319167         
Command reply timeout on port=0, count=1, lastRequest=0x00!
Mar 26 08:39:27 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:871, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe@/dev/usb/lp0>, pid=1225, e=22, t=1080319167         
exClose(reason=0x3002)
Mar 26 08:39:28 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: SYSLOG at ExMgr.cpp:652, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe>, pid=1235, e=111, t=1080319168         ptal-mlcd 
successfully initialized.
Mar 26 08:39:28 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: ERROR at ExMgr.cpp:4063, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe@/dev/usb/lp1>, pid=1235, e=22, t=1080319168         
libusbFindDevice: Couldn't find device!
Mar 26 08:39:33 MajorKong ptal-mlcd: ERROR at 
transport/ExMlcCommandChannel.cpp:251, 
dev=<mlc:usb:probe@/dev/usb/lp1>, pid=1235, e=22, t=1080319173         
Command reply timeout on port=0, count=1, lastRequest=0x00!


which makes me wonder.  The usb/lp0 is my officejet and the usb/lp1 is 
a brother printer that runs perfectly under cups.  At the moment the 
officejet is not added to the cups configuration at all although if I 
try to add it to cups then I see ptal device not found and if I choose 
USB Printer #1 then I can print nothing at all...

Another possibly related issue is that if I let ptal-init look for 
parallel devices it claims to find one but there is nothing connected 
to the parallel port... just tossing that in in case it is of 
consequence.

Has this problem been resolved?  Can anyone point me in the right 
direction?

Thanks,
Darren




On Mar 22, 2004, at 2:05 PM, Cory Meisch wrote:

> Can you check the CUPS logs and and dmesg and tell me if you get any
> error messages there? Also, after you run Ptal-init, how are you then
> setting up the device?
>
> Another thing you might want to do, is start fresh again. Remove all 
> the
> hpoj stuff. Restart CUPS. Upgrade hpijs with the tar ball. Then install
> the hpoj-0.91 tar ball (not CVS, even though they should be exactly the
> same). Restart CUPS with #killall cupsd -HUP and then use the web
> interface (http://localhost:631) to setup your device...
>
> Cory
> hp linux printing team