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No devices found in hp-setup for LPT

Asked by Zbigniew Lisiecki

Hi.my HP Laserjet 2100M worked well connected to the computer by a parallel-PCI expansion card. After a motherboard change I use a parallel-PCI-express card or a USB-to-parallel cabel. In both cases hp-device-manager won't recognize the printer and as a consequence a "warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed" appears. My system is openSuSE 13.1 and I can still install the printer under yast, but without hp-installed it won't go.
I downloaded hplip-3.13.11 configured it to recognize LP1 and compiled. hp-check shows that hpaio package is missing, but SuSE does not provide it, the one I found in the net won't install and my printer is just a laserprinter not a all-in-one device, so I hoped to omit hpaio.
In any case "No devices found" message appears in hp-setup for LPT.
Could somebody help me to make the printer work ? Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Zbigniew Lisiecki

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goutam kodu (goutam-hplip) said : 		#1

Please provide us "lsusb" command output with your printer connected from USB-to-parallel cabel.

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Zbigniew Lisiecki (zlisiecki) said : 		#2

Hi, lsusb output:
zbyszek@vega:~/list> lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 090c:1000 Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan (formerly Feiya Technology Corp.) Flash Drive
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 04b8:010e Seiko Epson Corp. ES-2200 [Perfection 1680]
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 067b:2305 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2305 Parallel Port
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 046d:c51b Logitech, Inc. V220 Cordless Optical Mouse for Notebooks
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 04d9:1503 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Shortboard Lefty

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Zbigniew Lisiecki (zlisiecki) said : 		#3

The Epson Perfection 1680 is a scanner. It is working well. In the above lsusb output the HP printer is surely switched on.

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Best Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) said : 		#4

Regarding using the parallel port in general, see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Installing_a_Printer
and "Parallel port printers do no longer work out of the box"
at http://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Printing_News

Regarding using a USB-to-parallel cable:
For a workaround for parallel port <-> USB converters see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=264219#c1

Regarding HPLIP3.13.11 for openSUSE 13.1:

I provide HPLIP 3.13.11 as RPM packages
"hplip", "hplip-hpijs", and "hplip-sane"
for various openSUSE and Suse Linux Enterprise versions
in the "Printing" development project in the openSUSE build service
for 32-bit i586 and 64-bit x86_64 architecture.

E.g. for openSUSE 13.1 64-bit x86_64 from this direct URL
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_13.1/x86_64/

Please read
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=Printing
in particular note therein:
========================================
The "Printing" project may contain new, upcoming
software. Therefore the packages in the "Printing"
project might neither be in a stable state nor fit
well into currently installed systems.
Have this in mind if you think about to install
packages from the "Printing" project into your
currently running system.
Do not use "Factory" if your system is
not "Factory". Use the matching packages
for your particular system.
The packages in the "Printing" project are
only for testing, without any guarantee
or warranty, and without any support.
As an extreme example, this means if your
complete computer center crashes because
of those packages, it is only your problem.
On the other hand this does not mean that those
packages are known to be terrible broken but
they are not thoroughly tested so that any
unexpected issue can happen.
========================================

For general information see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_set-up_a_HP_printer

I assume you are a venturous openSUSE user
who likes to try out if the openSUSE HPLIP 3.13.11
RPM packages "hplip", "hplip-hpijs", and "hplip-sane"
work for you.

But HPLIP 3.13.11 cannot "magically" fix it when your
actual issue is the low level communication with your
parallel port printer device.

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Zbigniew Lisiecki (zlisiecki) said : 		#5

Danke Johannes, this has helped a lot. After reading USB-to-parallel cable information I can send some output directly to /dev/usb/lp0 and I can print a test page from yast->Printer now. I gained the conviction my hardware is capable to print. Still I cannot print from applications. After sending a print-job the printer LED doesn't blink and the http://localhost:631/jobs/ says for this printjob: "processing since ...., rendering completed" but nothing more happens.

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Zbigniew Lisiecki (zlisiecki) said : 		#6

Yes, the link about USB-to-parallel cable solved my problem. Thank everybody for help.

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Zbigniew Lisiecki (zlisiecki) said : 		#7

Thanks Johannes Meixner, that solved my question.