Print problems FC7

[stan]

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:27:51 +1000
david walcroft <d_j_w46 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> 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
> 

On my F7 system where I have not (knowingly) installed any extra usb
functionality, the following are installed:
libusb.i386                              0.1.12-7.fc7           installed       
libusb-devel.i386                        0.1.12-7.fc7           installed       
libusb-static.i386                       0.1.12-7.fc7           installed       
pam_usb.i386                             0.3.3-6.fc6            installed       
pam_usb-hotplug.i386                     0.3.3-6.fc6            installed       
usbutils.i386                            0.71-2.1               installed       
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb.i386                 0.8.1-5.fc7            installed