printer/scanner issues

[sh0tzy]

Hi all, not complete newbie here, but no expert. I have been running a Redhat server for a while now, but all command line, only doing ftp and Apache.

i want to kill Windoze and end my association with the evil empire...however..

Loaded RedHat 8.0 as dual boot with my Win2k, no problems there. All is great except 2 things. I have a HP Photosmart 7150, no drivers with the distro, so I got foomatic and installed it. Bingo, there is my drivers for the 7150...on /dev/usp/lp0 however, nothing prints. When I check lpq it has errord out. Can't make it work.

I have an Epson 636U scanner. After editing the config file an rem out the scsi option and point to USB it worked great...at first, now I get an error no device found.

Thanks for any and all help.

[wassy121]

errored out? What is the exact error? Seriously we get like 2-3 questions a day that are along the lines of "I tried to get this to work and it didn't, what is wrong". Where do you get the error "no device found" did you check to see if the module was loaded? What config file did you rem (comment) out the scsi line? Can you get the scanner to work again if you shutdown and restart the usb service? Is the scanner even on the USB bus? (/proc/bus/usb/* should contain some information).

[sh0tzy]

You are right, that was a pretty poor post on my part, my apologies. I am not at the machine right now, I'll get the exact error and post it regarding the printer.

Regarding the USB scanner, I didn't know where to look to see if the scanner is listed. The file that I edited was in /etc/sane/hp... I just had to rem the line that said SCSI and uncomment the USB line so that it would look to the USB ports.

I thought of something. I have 4 built in USB ports, I have a USB 2.0 card with 4 slots, then off of that I have a 4 port USB hub. Not sure if that matters or not.

Thanks,

[Dolda2000]

The beauty of USB is that hubs and things don't matter. It all behaves just as if it were connected directly to the computer.
Anyway, plug in and out your scanner, and then check the last few lines of /var/log/messages to see if any driver claimed it. That's a good start.

By the way, is your printer really a USB one (thinking of /dev/usb/lp0, as you stated in the first post)? In that case, do the same with it as with the scanner.

[sh0tzy]

Thanks, after unpluggin and replugging in the usb cable, sure enough there was a line in /var/log/messages that showed the printer, so i iknow that it is being seen.

here is what i get from lpc
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lpc>status
Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug)
HP7150@localhost enabled enabled 0 none none
lpc>up
Printer: HP7150@localhost
HP7150@localhost.localdomain: enabled and started
lpc>status
Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Subserver Redirect Status/(Debug)
HP7150@localhost enabled enabled 0 none none
lpc>active
Printer: HP7150@localhost
HP7150@localhost: not implemented yet
lpc>

not sure why it says not implemented yet, or how to do that...


this is what i get when i send a test job to printer
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[root@NS3 log]# lpq
Printer: HP7150@localhost
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid 1965 active
Unspooler: pid 2012 active
Status: attempt 3, sleeping 20 before retry at 19:56:50.961
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
active(attempt-3) root@localhost+964 A 964 /usr/share/printconf 18052 19:56:38
error shawn@localhost+507 A 507 ERROR: job removal requested

[Dolda2000]

Try "echo -en Hello\\f >/dev/usb/lp0" and see what happens.

[sh0tzy]

I did as you suggested, and sure enough, printer spits out a nice little Hello to me! So, the printer is there and works...what gives with the RedHap print tool?