HPLaserjet4200 Printing Help Requested

[Shelagh Manton]

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:10:01 +0530, Mohanan Govindan wrote:

> Hello,
> I am new here. I could not see the archives yet. So if this is already
> discussed , my apologies.
> I am trying to install and use my HP Laserjet 4200 in Ubuntu 6.06. It was
> working very well in k/ubuntu 5.10.
> [ I have searched ubuntuforums and googled all over, but could not find
> any helpful hints suitable to this situation yet. Hence the post.]
> Machine: [I]IBM NetVista 512MB , 40GB PC[/I]. HPLJ4200 is correctly
> recognised. (BIOS Settings Automatic/EPPorECP)
> 
> dmesg entries
> [I]PnPBIOS parport
> parport pc style  at 0x378 irq7 dma 1 PCSPP TRISTATE COMPAT ECP DMA lp0
> using parport (interrupt driven)
> userspace parallel port driver[/I]
> 
> Any kind of printing (eg test page or from an application) results in the
> [U]document staying in the Queue. No output in the printer[/U]. (The setup
> works very well in windoze. It is dual bootable)
> 
> /var/log/messages shows "[I]open print channel failed: will retry in 30
> seconds[/I]". The same thing appears in http://localhost:631/ printers tab
> 
> and dmesg shows :"[I]ppdev0 negotiated back to compatibility mode because
> user-space forgot unregistered pardevice[/I]"  followed by a
> "[I]registered pardevice"[/I]
> 
> /dev/lp0 and /dev/parport0 owned by root:lp
> 
> Tried upgrading cups to 1.2.1 experimental but still the same problem
> recurs. So downgraded  back to 1.2.0. Restarted cupsys hpijs etc - still
> same situation continues.
> 

Ok, I have the same problem, in that the printer spool appears to have the
file ready but nothing gets to the printer. When I changed the cupsd.conf
file to debug level and ran a print session with tail -f
/var/log/cups/error_log the messages say


D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:55 +1000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdReadClient: 7 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/LaserJet-6L
D [10/Jun/2006:09:07:56 +1000] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 7 status_code=0 (successful-ok)

So the problem appears to be an authentication problem. How can I fix
this? Ifind it so frustrating to set the printer up on the windows machine
to print. Ugh!

Shelagh