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Problems and successes with specific brands/models of printers
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#91 Post by lluamco »

Hi edoc,
I have no experience with printers requiring plugins. However, although you are right that you needed to create the directory you mentioned,
edoc wrote:This directory did not exist, so I needed to add a step to create it:
mkdir /usr/share/hplip/prnt/
it is strange that the command
install_hp_plugin name_of_the_correct_plugin
was not recognized.

1. Did you downloaded your needed plugin

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hp_laserjet_p1006.plugin
from
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/p ... P/plugins/ ?

2. Did you install the install_hp_plugin.pet ?(it is available at http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Printi ... plugin.pet)
Once this pet is installed, you should be able to execute the command

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 install_hp_plugin hp_laserjet_p1006.plugin
Can you please try it again and give feedback?
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#92 Post by edoc »

It works fine on my 4.31 Puppy laptop but not on her 4.21 Puppy laptop.

Is that the difference or should I look for something else that may be missing?

I do need to upgrade her laptop but am kinda stalling ... 4.31 is pretty stable ...
but Lighthouse Pup, despite or because of the KDE-bloat, has a lot of features that would be useful to her. Hmmmmm.
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#93 Post by edoc »

I am returning to the never-ending battle to coax CUPS into playing nicely with Puppy.

I am running Wary 030 and need either my HP Laserjet P1006 or HP Photosmart C4480 to work.

I would, of course, prefer that both work but at this point after 2-3 weeks without a working printer I will take what I can get.

The HP site lists several versions of Linux when you go to download their Linux driver for the P1006 but sadly, they do not include Puppy as an option. Which of the versions are most likely to be compatible with Wary 030, please?
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#94 Post by rcrsn51 »

Check your other post.
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#95 Post by edoc »

CUPS generates a blank screen when I go here: http://localhost:631/ then select Manage Printers.

This happened before and after loading the foo2xxx_r220909-0.0-i486.pet

Did I need to do a reboot?
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#96 Post by rcrsn51 »

First of all, this PET is just the driver package - it doesn't auto-install the printer. You still have to do that yourself from the CUPS Admin tab. Select Find New Printers or Add Printer.

You mentioned in a previous post about the Manage Printers page being blank. It should at least show the built-in CUPS-PDF driver. Boot from your Wary Live CD using "puppy pfix=ram" and see what happens.
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#97 Post by edoc »

When I clicked on CUPS (1.3.11 in Wary 030) from MENU-CUPS Printer Wizard it asked if I wanted to add a new printer - and I selected YES.

It opened a CUPS Web Interface Help window then a Common UNIX Printing System 1.3.11 window.

I selected again ADD PRINTER and it cycled for several minutes and finally opened a blank window with this address: "http://localhost:631/admin?OP=add-printer"

I allowed session cookies, images, and popups and refreshed it is back to "Waiting for localhost ..." now for at least a minute.

Something is not working right for sure!

I am going to reboot but I think the problem is a broken CUPS install.

Should I try to reinstall 1.3.11 or try something newer?

I had a horrible mess of CUPS patches and add-ins before and really don't want to go there again. I'd like to clean out the old before trying something new or different.

WDYT?
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#98 Post by rcrsn51 »

edoc wrote:Something is not working right for sure!I am going to reboot but I think the problem is a broken CUPS install.Should I try to reinstall 1.3.11 or try something newer?WDYT?
rcrsn51 wrote:Boot from your Wary Live CD using "puppy pfix=ram" and see what happens.
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#99 Post by edoc »

I will have to create a CD, I never needed it as I just clicked on the downloaded ISO and copied the three files to a /wary directory then edited my GRUB menu.lst file.

Is there any reason that adding Wary 030 as a Frugal install would be a problem doing it that way?

I did just reboot and no joy with CUPS.

CUPS is having trouble finding localhost.

Note: Barry's Simple Network app never remembers the settings - so CUPS isn't the only thing misbehaving - then again, I recall that I saw the same problem in Lucid 5.01 and I think Quirky (on different computers).
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#100 Post by rcrsn51 »

Is there any reason that adding Wary 030 as a Frugal install would be a problem doing it that way?
No, but modify your GRUB entry by adding "pfix=ram" to the end of the kernel line. That starts a fresh copy of Wary that doesn't use your corrupted pupsave file.
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#101 Post by edoc »

OK, I did that but then I loose all of my E-mail and other settings.

CUPS does appear to work now.

I can see all of my folders but do I have to now rebuild my E-mail folders and reload everything (my OpenOffice with Templates), etc?

That would be another real time-consuming hassle for sure!

Can't I reload CUPS 1.3.11 and perhaps Barry's Simple Network interface instead of the hassle of rebuilding the much more complex apps that were working fine?
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#102 Post by rcrsn51 »

Can't I reload CUPS 1.3.11 and perhaps Barry's Simple Network interface instead of the hassle of rebuilding the much more complex apps that were working fine?
That depends on how things got corrupted in the first place. It may well be that the problem is with your browser accessing the CUPS web interface and not with CUPS itself.

One of the reasons I never liked Seamonkey was the difficulty in clearing its cache. That's particularly problematic when the cached pages belong to CUPS.
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#103 Post by edoc »

OK, I ran the install for CUPS 1.3.11 and rebooted.

Tried CUPS and it still has trouble finding localhost ...

I really do not want to have to rebuild my E-mail setup and several other things ... again ... just went through that last month ... it is precious time wasted.

Arghhhhh!

What about an upgrade to Seamonkey - might that fix the links/clear the cache?

I read that somewhere Barry had compiled Seamonkey 2.0.5
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#104 Post by rcrsn51 »

Seamonkey now has a setting under Tools called Clear Private Data.
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#105 Post by edoc »

Everything other than Cookies, Offline, and Authorized is checked - is that sufficient to get it done or should any of those three also be checked?
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#106 Post by hugoto »

I have Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 on my computer, which has CUPS 1.4.2
Now I would like to install my HP Deskjet F2420, but the hplip-website says that it requires Minimum HPLIP version 3.9.10

Is there any hpliplite-pet which supports my printer and lucid? :)
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#107 Post by rcrsn51 »

I don't know how well lluamco's packages have been tested in Lupu. But the hpijs-3.10.2-dynppd.pet from here does work in Lupu-501 and has a driver for the Deskjet f2400 series.

You won't need the foomatic-filters patch.
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#108 Post by lluamco »

Quirky and lucid puppy can use dynamic packages.They can be found in the thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 468#439468
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#109 Post by Frank Cox »

Is there a puppy distro that this printer will work from out of the box? It would have taken me less time to build a new pup than I have spent on this driver.
Bruno has a driver for it but the only plugin I had was from the link on the first page of this thread and it says the printer is installed but nothing happens when you try to print a test page.

If not there is a foomatic driver here http://pastebin.com/TnkZ7kEH that has to be compiled which I think I can do if I can fine the .icm files it asks for but I do not have a high speed connection where the printer is. Can I compile the driver on the flash drive that boots that puppy without the printer attached?


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#110 Post by disciple »

Please make it easy for people to help you - if there is critical information (the printer model) in your post subject, repeat it in the post body. And tell us all the critical information (the driver for that printer is foo2hp) instead of making us follow links or search at openprinting to find it.
Is there a puppy distro that this printer will work from out of the box?
I don't know whether there is a puppy that includes foo2hp. There have been foo2hp packages posted to the forum... but I'm not sure exactly how installing ICM profiles relates to the build process.
I do know that getweb is a shell script - if you look in it you can see how it gets the ICM profile and what it does with it.
It would have taken me less time to build a new pup than I have spent on this driver.
What have you spent all that time doing?
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