[arch-general] CUPS won't detect my usb printer

[Chris Bannister]

Do you have usblp loaded? lsmod | grep usblp

2009/11/15 Jim Burton <jim at sdf-eu.org>:
> Hi, I'm new to arch and unable to set up my (USB) Canon printer. I've read quite a large number
> of threads on the forum about this and suppose my solution is in there somewhere but cups
> doesn't recognise my printer for some reason. Here's what I've tried:
>
> I've installed cups, ghostscript, gsfonts and gutenprint and blacklisted usblp. My printer is
> picked up by lsusb:
>
> Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04a9:1094 Canon, Inc. PIXMA iP3000x Printer
>
> and I think it has the right permissions:
>
> [jim at daisy ~]$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/005/003
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 189, 514 2009-11-15 13:44 /dev/bus/usb/005/003
>
> In the web interface when I go to add a printer there are none found. I have set cups logging
> to debug but there's nothing there that means anything to me. Here is some of the output when I
> try to find the printer in the web interface:
>
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Printers client-error-not-found: No destinations added.
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] Returning IPP client-error-not-found for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from localhost
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Get-Devices 1
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] CUPS-Get-Devices
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdIsAuthorized: username=""
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] Returning HTTP Unauthorized for CUPS-Get-Devices (no URI) from localhost
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdSendHeader: 15 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS", trc="y"
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] cgi_null_passwd(prompt="Password for daemon on localhost? ") called!
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] lang="en_US.UTF8", locale="/en_US"...
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] [CGI] lang="en_US.UTF8", locale="/en_US"...
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 15
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:09 +0000] PID 2650 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/admin.cgi) exited with no errors.
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:39 +0000] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF
> D [15/Nov/2009:13:45:39 +0000] cupsdCloseClient: 12
>
> What should I try next?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>