Print problems FC7

david walcroft d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au
Fri Jul 27 23:27:51 UTC 2007


Richard England wrote:
> david walcroft wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 10:10 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Since updates yesterday including the latest kernel my printer is 
>>>> off line,I have tried the following without success
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo /usr/share/hplip/setup
>>>>
>>>> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
>>>> Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 4.5
>>>>
>>>> Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>>>> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>> This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>>>> under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>>>>
>>>> error: hplip-gui not installed.  GUI not available. Exiting.
>>>> error: PyQt init failed. Reverting to interactive mode.
>>>> error: No devices found.
>>>> error: Error occured during interactive mode. Exiting.
>>>>
>>>> [david at reddwarf ~]$ /usr/share/hplip/probe
>>>>
>>>> HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
>>>> Printer Discovery Utility ver. 3.2
>>>>
>>>> Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
>>>> This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>>>> This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
>>>> under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
>>>>
>>>> warning: No devices found on the 'usb' bus. If this isn't the 
>>>> result you are expecting,
>>>> warning: check to make sure your devices are properly connected and 
>>>> powered on.
>>>>
>>>> Restarting "service hplip restart" worked but 'print screen' gives 
>>>> me nothing.
>>>>
>>>>  What do I need to do now please
>>>> does the
>>>>  Thanks   david
>>>>  
>>>>     
>>> I need an explanation of off-line. What does the cups web pages say
>>> about the printer? Does it indicate that you can start the printer? If
>>> it does then start the printer. That worked for me.
>>> -- 
>>> =======================================================================
>>> May those that love us love us; and those that don't love us, may God
>>> turn their hearts; and if he doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn
>>> their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.
>>> =======================================================================
>>> Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>>>
>>>   
>> Aaron this from cups web page' $ /sbin/lsusb
>> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
>> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 
>> 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3611 Hewlett-Packard
>> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 
>> 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>>
>> *Printer State:* stopped, accepting jobs, published
>>
>> By off-line I mean the printer is not recieving any jobs
>>
>> Thanks   david
>>
>
> As Aaron said, start the printer from the CUPS page. The printer state 
> should be "idle,accepting jobs, published".
>
> I am puzzled by the fact that /sbin/lsusb could not be found, 
> however.  You shouldn't need to sudo to run that command. It does not 
> require root permissions. 
> I have an HP2410 attached to my F7 system and I'm seeing the following:
>
> $ /sbin/lsusb
> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 
> 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3611 Hewlett-Packard
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 
> 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> Is it possible that the problem is with the USB subsystem(s) ?
> If you do
>    rpm -qa | grep usb
> does the usbutils package show up? Any others?  This may be drawing 
> you away from the printer problem, but I was drawn to the error 
> message that said "No devices found on the 'usb' bus."   I'm 
> approaching my limit of analysis capability here.  Hopefully someone 
> else can help enlighten both of us.
>
> ~~R
>
I tried rpm -qa | grep usb and this is the result .

david at reddwarf ~]$ sudo rpm -qa | grep usb
libusb-0.1.12-7.fc7.i386
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.8.1-5.fc7.i386
libusb-devel-0.1.12-5.1.i386
[david at reddwarf ~]$

Thanks   david




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