Printer Stopped Working

[Ted Potter]

can not tell from the specs but most hp can be access via a web interface.
Try to use the ip address and see if you can get to the printer via a
browser.

Also if possible can you get the printer to print out it's configuration ?
I've
seen other printers "lose" the network configuration.





On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Micros50 <micros50 at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:51 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 02/10/2010 12:38 PM, Micros50 wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a Hewlett Packard B209 printer connected via wireless ethernet
> to
> > > my LAN. For the past several months everything was working fine. At
> > > l;east 3 different computers running Fedora 11 and 12 had no problems
> > > seeing the networked printer and printing to it.
> > >
> > > Then all of a sudden everything went kaputz. I think it happened after
> a
> > > recent routine upgrade via YUM. All of a sudden none of my computers
> can
> > > access the printer. It seems to show up as a valid networked printer
> > > but, I cannot get it to print. If I send a document to the printer I
> get
> > > the following message.
> > >
> > > "/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed"
> > >
> > > I cannot even access any administrative functions top pause or restart
> > > the printer, nor can I print a test page. I disabled my firewall and
> > > SELinux but unto no avail. It just sits there dumb, like it's there but
> > > not there. Up to a couple days ago it was working flawlessly.
> > >
> > > I attached a copy of my cupsd.conf file. If any further diagnostics are
> > > needed I can furnish those as well.
> > >
> > > Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance...
> >
> > First, try to ping your printer, both by name and by IP address.  If
> > you can ping via IP but not name, then you may be affected by:
> >
> > There was an update to both F11 and F12 that can affect you if you are
> > running BIND (named) on your machine.  It has to do with the dnssec-conf
> > RPM.  Do an "rpm -q dnssec-conf".  If you get a result that shows either
> >
> >       1.21-3.fc11
> >       1.21-7.fc12
> >
> > then "yum downgrade dnssec-conf" and then "service named restart".
> > Details are here:
> >
>
> Okay... I can ping the printer via it's ip address. I cannot ping by
> name and, I am not running bind nor is dnssec-conf installed. This
> problem is also network wide because none of my machines can print
> anything anymore.  I still get the message
>
> "paused /usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed"
>
> And CUPS administration won't let me unpause the printer nor carry out
> any administrative function.
>
> Ciao
>
> John
>
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