(SOLVED)Can't find driver for HP722c in pclinux2012.08

[batzilla]

The Device URI is completely incorrect for your printer, as socket:// is for a network (connected by ethernet) printer but, please correct me if I'm wrong, yours is a parallel printer.

Yes, that is correct.  It is a parallel printer.  How do I go about correcting this?

Run hp-toolbox from a terminal and post the output.

The first time I ran this I got this:

[buck@localhost ~]$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.9)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.

 
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.9)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:127: RuntimeWarning: PyOS_InputHook is not available for interactive use of PyGTK
  set_interactive(1)
[buck@localhost ~]$

A box (Refreshing Device List - HP Device Manager) came up telling me there were no installed HP devices found with three methods as to how to set up a new device.  Then at the bottom, it says, "Note: Only devices installed with the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend will appear in the Device Manager."  There it gives me three options: 1.  Set up device . . ., 2.  CUPS Web Interface, and 3.  Close.  When I closed that box and re-ran "hp-toolbox" I just got this:

[buck@localhost ~]$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.9)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.

 
And I get a black cursor and nothing else happens.

It appears that your user does not have any group membership because my output shows .....
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| PERMISSION |
--------------

groups          user-groups                    Required        -        -        OK       user sys disk lp wheel floppy tape cdrom usb cdwriter audio video dialout users apache usbmux machines mpd pulse-access mysql polkituser fuse vboxusers[/color][/s]

For some reason, the rest of this does not show up, but I did go in and add 'lp' to my user group.

Sorry, only now realised the hp-check was run as root and not as user ........ 

Does this matter?  I ran per German Tux's suggestion.

[KernelKarter]

A box (Refreshing Device List - HP Device Manager) came up telling me there were no installed HP devices found with three methods as to how to set up a new device.  Then at the bottom, it says, "Note: Only devices installed with the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend will appear in the Device Manager."  There it gives me three options: 1.  Set up device . . ., 2.  CUPS Web Interface, and 3.  Close.  When I closed that box and re-ran "hp-toolbox" I just got this:

[buck@localhost ~]$ hp-toolbox

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.9)
HP Device Manager ver. 15.0

Copyright (c) 2001-14 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.

 
And I get a black cursor and nothing else happens.

The first time around, when you had the HP Device Manager up and running, you should have selected "1. Set up device . . ."
Try running hp-toolbox again and see if you can get the HP Device Manager to run and, if you can, proceed with "1. Set up device . . ." and see what happens.

-- Eddie

[batzilla]

The Device URI is completely incorrect for your printer, as socket:// is for a network (connected by ethernet) printer but, please correct me if I'm wrong, yours is a parallel printer.

After adding 'lp' to my group membership, I ran 'hp-check' as user, and this seems to be corrected.

Sorry, only now realised the hp-check was run as root and not as user ........ 

Per my statement above, here is a portion of the 'hp-check'

HP-DeskJet-722C
---------------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: socket://HP:9100
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-DeskJet-722C.ppd
PPD Description: HP DeskJet 722C Foomatic/pnm2ppa
Printer status: printer HP-DeskJet-722C disabled since Fri 05 Oct 2012 05:22:33 PM EDT -    Unable to locate printer 'HP'!
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend for HP-Devices.                                                               


--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

groups          user-groups                    Required        -        -        OK       buck lp floppy cdrom cdwriter audio video dialout users polkituser

Is the warning in red of significance?  I keep seeing this when I try to install printer.  I just tried to install it again through PCC with the same outcome.  It won't let me 'enable' when I right click on the printer icon and select >properties>policies.

[batzilla]

The first time around, when you had the HP Device Manager up and running, you should have selected "1. Set up device . . ."
Try running hp-toolbox again and see if you can get the HP Device Manager to run and, if you can, proceed with "1. Set up device . . ." and see what happens.

I ran 'hp-toolbox' again and got the HP Device Manager to come up on 'setup'.  I selected "1. Set up device. . .", selected 'parallel port' (LPT) and it said there was no device found.

[KernelKarter]

Searched in Synaptic for HP Drivers and all packages seem to be there.

Is pnm2ppa installed?

-- Eddie

[KernelKarter]

The Device URI is completely incorrect for your printer, as socket:// is for a network (connected by ethernet) printer but, please correct me if I'm wrong, yours is a parallel printer.

After adding 'lp' to my group membership, I ran 'hp-check' as user, and this seems to be corrected.

Sorry, only now realised the hp-check was run as root and not as user ........ 

Per my statement above, here is a portion of the 'hp-check'

HP-DeskJet-722C
---------------
Type: Unknown
Device URI: socket://HP:9100
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/HP-DeskJet-722C.ppd
PPD Description: HP DeskJet 722C Foomatic/pnm2ppa
Printer status: printer HP-DeskJet-722C disabled since Fri 05 Oct 2012 05:22:33 PM EDT -    Unable to locate printer 'HP'!
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend for HP-Devices.                                                               


--------------
| PERMISSION |
--------------

groups          user-groups                    Required        -        -        OK       buck lp floppy cdrom cdwriter audio video dialout users polkituser

Is the warning in red of significance?  I keep seeing this when I try to install printer.  I just tried to install it again through PCC with the same outcome.  It won't let me 'enable' when I right click on the printer icon and select >properties>policies.

The warning in red can be safely ignored.

-- Eddie

[KernelKarter]

The first time around, when you had the HP Device Manager up and running, you should have selected "1. Set up device . . ."
Try running hp-toolbox again and see if you can get the HP Device Manager to run and, if you can, proceed with "1. Set up device . . ." and see what happens.

I ran 'hp-toolbox' again and got the HP Device Manager to come up on 'setup'.  I selected "1. Set up device. . .", selected 'parallel port' (LPT) and it said there was no device found.

OK, let's tackle this from a different angle.
Have you tried to install the printer with the CUPS Web Interface, as suggested by @Phil and @kalle123

-- Eddie

[Just17]

Might appear that some package to help with access to parallel ports is missing .......

[twa]

batzilla,
I see that hplip is installed but this alone is not sufficient
check in synaptic and confirm you have installed cups and task-printing-hp

[batzilla]

Is pnm2ppa installed?

Yes, pnm2ppa is installed.

batzilla,
I see that hplip is installed but this alone is not sufficient
check in synaptic and confirm you have installed cups and task-printing-hp

All the CUPS packages are installed and task-printing-hp is installed.  I've also run an update, so things should be up to date.

Have you tried to install the printer with the CUPS Web Interface, as suggested by @Phil and @kalle123

I know I've seen that somewhere, but I don't remember where.  How do I use the CUPS Web Interface?  I don't see it in PCC.

[batzilla]

OK, duh!  How about localhost:631?  I'm trying, but I'm having trouble.  It first asked me for a username and password, which I did.  When I clicked on "add a printer" I got a Printer Error: Unable to add printer: Forbidden.  I'm wondering if I possibly gave a wrong username, but I can't get it to ask me for one again.

It's interesting.  At the localhost:631 website, there are NO HP DeskJets mentioned.  There's a bazillion LaserJets, but no DeskJets.     Actually, when I go to Administration>Printers>Find New Printers, it says there are none!!??

[twa]

batzilla,
I have gone through many Linux distros and always had only HP printers.
On all the distros I have tried the HP printer always worked out of the box.
Actually I'm running PCLOS LXDE 32bit as main system ad this is what I have installed in synaptic:
hplip
hplip-common
hplip-gui
hplip-hpijs
hplip-libs
cups
cups-common
cups-drivers-foo2zjs
I do NOT have installed system-config-printer.
Re localhost:631....never used
I would suggest to remove completely hplip including configuration files and reinstall it again
then from terminal:

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su -c hp-setup

[Just17]

Is  libieee1284_3  required for parallel port access and is it installed?

[Just17]

I am unsure if these are applicable but this is something I would try.


lsmod | grep lp

which should give a response similar to this

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lp                      7041  0
parport                25179  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
Do the same for  ppdev


lsmod | grep ppdev

which should give similar to this

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ppdev                   4821  0
parport                25179  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
and

lsmod | grep par

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parport_pc             28439  0
parport                25179  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev

If any of the modules in the responses above do not show up then please try loading them.

To load a required but missing module, su to root in a terminal and use the following command ...

modprobe lp
modprobe ppdev
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc

etc.

Then try setting up the printer again, and if successful the module/s will need to be loaded at boot by adding them to the list in the  /etc/modprobe.preload  file.


Warning:   I do not have a parallel port printer to test with, so the above is a bit of guessing on my part,  so please take the above in that light 

[KernelKarter]

OK, duh!  How about localhost:631?  I'm trying, but I'm having trouble.  It first asked me for a username and password, which I did.  When I clicked on "add a printer" I got a Printer Error: Unable to add printer: Forbidden.  I'm wondering if I possibly gave a wrong username, but I can't get it to ask me for one again.

Username = root
Password = <root password>

-- Eddie