RE: [hpoj-devel] problem with hp officejet g85

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Manfred Gehrke wrote:
> i run hp officejet g85 under suse 7.0 (2.2.16 kernel)
> 
> scanimage scanimage -d hp:mlc:mlcpp0 --test
> 
> fails with following log messages:
> 
>   scanimage -d hp:mlc:mlcpp0 --test
...
> [hp] hp_get_dev: New device mlc:mlcpp0, connect-ptal, scsi-request=0
> [hp] sanei_hp_device_new: mlc:mlcpp0
> ptalMlcDeviceOpen(name=<mlcpp0>): found matching dev=0x080508F0.
> ptalChannelAllocate(dev=0x080508F0): chan=0x080549E8.
> ptalChannelSetRemoteService(chan=0x080549E8,serviceType=2,sock
> etID=0,serviceName=<>)
> ptalMlcChannelOpen(chan=0x080549E8): error creating socket!
> ptalChannelOpen(chan=0x080549E8): provider failed open!
...
> do i have something installed wrong, or are some access 
> rights to be set?

Hi, Manfred.  Did you remember to insmod all the necessary kernel-mode
drivers (parport, parport_pc, parport_probe, ieee12844.o, ieee12844pp.o)?  I
think the "error creating socket" would indicate that at least ieee12844.o
was missing.

David