After having a million errors with the HPLIP driver, I found the foo2* drivers, decided to install it but it isn't working as it should.

I downloaded, built and installed the package without problems, installed the hotplug for the firmware, shutdown the printer for a few minutes, reconnected it, configured CUPS, and attempted to print a test page.

CUPS says: "Printer busy; will retry in 5 seconds.."
/var/log/messages after connecting the printer:

Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet kernel: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 4 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x3F17
Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet logger: loading hp_laserjet_p1505 firmware 001 004
Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet logger: loading hp_laserjet_p1505 firmware 1 4
Dec  2 08:28:23 Skarlet /etc/hotplug/usb/hpljP1505: foo2zjs: loading HP LaserJet P1505 firmware /usr/share/foo2xqx/firmware/sihpP1505.dl to /dev/usb/lp0 ...
Dec  2 08:29:32 Skarlet foo2xqx-wrapper: foo2xqx-wrapper -t -r600x600 -p9 -m1 -s7 -d1
Dec  2 08:29:33 Skarlet foo2xqx-wrapper: gs -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -g4960x7016 -r600x600 -sDEVICE=pbmraw -dCOLORSCREEN -dMaxBitmap=500000000  
Dec  2 08:29:33 Skarlet foo2xqx-wrapper: foo2xqx -r600x600 -g4960x7016 -p9 -m1 -n1 -d1 -s7  -u 88x84 -l 88x84  -t

And the golden goose:

Skarlet:/tmp/foo2zjs# ls /dev | grep usb
usb
usbdev1.1
usbdev1.1_ep00
usbdev1.1_ep81
usbdev1.4
usbdev1.4_ep00
usbdev1.4_ep01
usbdev1.4_ep81
usbdev2.1
usbdev2.1_ep00
usbdev2.1_ep81
usbdev2.2
usbdev2.2_ep00
usbdev2.2_ep81
Skarlet:/tmp/foo2zjs# ls /dev/usb
lp0
Skarlet:/tmp/foo2zjs# usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0
Error: Device or resource busy: can't open '/dev/usb/lp0'

I would really appreciate some help :).

PD: I'm using Debian.

Thanks in advance.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2009 06:58AM by rickrich.

Put it on a different USB controller or change the cables or put it on a POWERED hub.

The port works properly, the printer was printing on HPLIP, with some mishaps, but printing.

Still, I tested changing the port, but it makes no difference.

In case it helps:

Skarlet:/tmp/foo2zjs# uname -a
Linux Skarlet 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Thu May 8 02:16:39 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Please remove hplip!!!! Then power down and up the printer.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/02/2009 12:20PM by rickrich.

I already had uninstalled it, and the server was rebooted due to a power failure an hour after that, so you could say I power cycled it. Any more ideas :)?

# usb_printerid /dev/usb/lp0

Should work. Works on Fedora 12.