HP Laserjet M1005MFP on Fedora 15

All looked good for my printer on Fedora 15 - on plugging it in, it was detected and some installation occurred. Unfortunately when trying to print it failed, and lpstat gave the info below -


[steve@aspireone753 ~]$ lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: HP-LaserJet-M1005
device for HP-LaserJet-M1005: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_M1005?serial=KJ18MKN
HP-LaserJet-M1005 accepting requests since Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST
printer HP-LaserJet-M1005 now printing HP-LaserJet-M1005-8.  enabled since Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST
/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed
HP-LaserJet-M1005-7     steve             1024   Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:42:16 CEST
HP-LaserJet-M1005-8     steve             1024   Fri 05 Aug 2011 17:43:13 CEST

A further check in /var/log/messages revealed -

Aug  5 17:43:14 aspireone753 hpcups[5262]: prnt/hpcups/HPCupsFilter.cpp 418: m_Job initialization failed with error = 48


From which google found the solution below -

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611255

VirtualBox on Acer Aspire One

I'd started to install VMware on my Aspire One (Linux), when I came across
macles* post on VirtualBox. In a couple of hours I had it up and running, with Windows XP as the guest OS, nice.

When reading about VirtualBox, the thing that excited me most was the support for USB devices - ie. it can 'pipe' them through to the guest OS, such that devices not supported in the host OS can be used in the guest OS... nice.

So I gave it a try - first was my HP Laserjet M1005 MFP, printer and scanner - no problems. Install the drivers (in XP), plug in the device, tell VirtualBox to enable it, XP detects it and out comes the test page. Similarly for the Scanner. Mounting ISO images of CDs (eg. install CDs) works beautifully too, something XP itself isn't so good at.

Then the Sony Ericsson P1i PC suite. This is a buggy thing to start with... I can no longer get it to install on my Vista work PC, how about XP under VirtualBox? Basically, no problems! I may have to run VirtualBox on my Vista laptop too :)

It's really nice when things work so well.

udev

After some compilation and installation following this post FC8 HP LaserJet M1005 MFP installation -step-by-step-, I managed to get my scanner to work on Linpus. Unfortunately only as root. To get past this, I needed to dig into the world of udev. Here's what I found -

The scanner is found, as follows -
[user@localhost udev]$ sane-find-scanner
found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x3b17) at libusb:001:004

and after updating /etc/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules, udev is creating a symlink for the scanner -

[user@localhost udev]$ ll /dev/scanner-1-2.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2008-10-20 16:33 /dev/scanner-1-2.3 -> bus/usb/001/004
[user@localhost udev]$ ll /dev/bus/usb/001/004
crw-r--r--+ 1 user root 189, 3 2008-10-20 16:54 /dev/bus/usb/001/004

and magically after a restart, it's even creating them with the right owner. A lot of playing around yesterday (perhaps without restarting) had me frustrated, as it was consistently created with root:root as the owner.