Hello List, Monitors!
I just loaded openSuse 12.1 x86-32bit on a Pentium III box. The printer is USB connected.
The scanner function is working on Xsane, but there is no printer queue. When I attempt to add a print queue the search for Epson Stylus Photo Rx500 results in “No matching driver found. Change the search string or “Find More””.
Find More changes the search string to “any model”, but the search comes out the same way.
I vaguely remember asking this here before, but I couldn’t find that post. In that dim recollection, I think someone there suggested a source for a driver that worked. I’m hoping for a repeat! heboland.
Do you have the gutenprint package installed? It provides a suitable driver for the RX500. Check with
rpm -qa |grep guten
If necessary, install it with
zypper in gutenprint
If automatic detection/configuration isn’t working, then try manually configuring via
http://localhost:631/admin
Choose ‘Add Printer’, enter your root credentials when prompted, and follow the prompts given. The Epson RX500 model should be available to choose from.
Thanks for the response, Deano!
I did have gutenprint installed.
The localhost weblink looked familiar, so I think that’s the way I fixed a similar problem before.
This time the local printer/fax choices are only HPLIP and then a bigger list of network printers.
Going out to the open printing link gets me to some drivers, but I can’t download them. The last few days, repositories have not been downloading well. The download from open printing doesn’t even start.
There is also an epson printer driver package available to my Yast > SwManagement. It only a few MB, but the download gets to 86%, quits, and retries.
I’ve had similar problems with using Yast > Online Update. English man pages download to 98% and then repeatedly retry.
This is of course a separate problem from the printer, and this download problem could be just mine.
I’ll try some of these options later and report back. Heboland
Going out to the open printing link gets me to some drivers, but I can’t download them. The last few days, repositories have not been downloading well. The download from open printing doesn’t even start.
No, this shouldn’t be necessary. If you have the gutenprint package installed, then the RX500 driver is available.
This time the local printer/fax choices are only HPLIP and then a bigger list of network printers.
The real problem appears to be that your USB-connected doesn’t appear to be picked up by CUPS. The CUPS web intetrface should offer you a USB option in your ‘Local Printers’.
To diagnose:
- Plug in your printer, open a terminal window, then note any output pertaining to the printer
dmseg|tail
For example, I get the following (with my Brother printer)
7033.317098] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
7033.434776] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=04f9, idProduct=0248
7033.434786] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=3
7033.434792] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: E69893D1N337394
7033.571948] usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04F9 pid 0x0248
7033.571994] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
- Another option is to run the following backend manually like this (with your printer connected)
/usr/lib/cups/backend/usb
For reference, I get
direct usb://Brother/DCP-7055 "Brother DCP-7055" "Brother DCP-7055" "MFG:Brother;CMD:PJL,XL2HB;MDL:DCP-7055;CLS:PRINTER;CID:Brother Laser Type1;" ""
Your Epson printer should annunciate itself similarly.
Report back.
Replying back to myself for continuity, my Rx500 is working now. I attempted to mark this thread solved as I think is.
After fooling around with Yast > Network Devices, I was able to download the epson driver with Yast > SwManagement. From there I went to Yast > Hw > Printer. Nothing showed up in the Print Queue search for Rx500, but there was an epson entry shown in the driver list.
I selected that epson driver, but was unable to get a print queue added.
Next I went to the localhost:631. This time there was an epson entry in the local printer section. I selected the epson entry and the Rx500 print queue was added. I printed a test page successfully.
I don’t know what role the internet outage may have played in this or what happened that improved it.
Deano, thanks again for your help with this! You solved my problem. heboland
I’m not sure what was failing (with the printer detection), but I’m glad you’ve got it sorted. 