[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#463814: Hplip fails to recognize correctly installed devices

[Bruce Sass]

On Sat July 12 2008 02:19:33 pm David Baron wrote:
> The 2.4* and newer packages from Debian Sid do not find the printer
> at all so are not working correctly.

I am a bit confused...

The hp-check.log you sent on June 15th showed that HPLIP did 
indeed "find the printer", and that log was generated by HPLIP-2.8.5 
which is newer than "2.4*".

...so, your statement which I have included above appears to be 
incorrect.

Like it says in your hp-check.log:
---
hp-check[9601]: info: :Printer status: printer HP690C is idle.  enabled 
since Thu 15 May 2008 07:31:55 PM IDT
"warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or 
hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP."
---

The errors you mention in your original report are to be expected with 
the configuration indicated in the hp-check.log you have provided. 
There is nothing buggy with that behaviour; the utilities expect hp: 
and hpfax: URIs and since none exist they don't find any usable 
devices, the toolkit finds no devices for the same reason.


From a bug report point of view, and taking the additional info into 
account, this is the interesting bit in your original message:
"So I try to configure the device, go through all the steps and 
on "finish", am back with no devices or unsupported device."

Later on you said:
"I tried changing that to one with HP stuff in it."

That is the setup (the one with an hp: type device URI) we need to see 
the hp-check.log and actual error messages/reports for. It may well be 
something as simple as a missing underscore in the URI.


- Bruce