[TriLUG] Can't print to locally-connected HP LJet 1160

[Brian Henning]

Howdy Gang,
   I'm just full of problems these days, it seems.  Here's the latest one.

I have an HP LaserJet 1160 (several, actually).  I can print to any of 
them that are attached to our network.  However, with one locally 
connected via USB, I can't get it to do anything.  Print jobs just sit 
in the queue; lpq says "Ready and printing" but nothing happens.  The 
USB core seems to recognize that the printer is there; it shows in the 
connection selection in the printer manager, and here is the output of 
lsusb:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:008c Microsoft Corp. Wireless Intellimouse 
Explorer 2.0
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03f0:1e17 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

So there it is, bus 001, device 004.  And my mouse is working, so it's 
not a general USB failure.  Also, I used to have a USB-connected Lexmark 
inkjet printer that, while it would have fits if it were actually 
hot-plugged, did print under most circumstances.  So USB printing in 
general should have been working...although, come to think of it, I 
hadn't tried it at all since my latest reload with Etch.

I'm not really sure where to go from here.  I should also mention that 
hotplug doesn't seem to be quite fully working either, after I rebuilt 
my kernel (although I tried to use exactly the same config as what was 
already running, by copying the config from /boot into the kernel source 
tree and running make oldconfig) -- my network interfaces aren't getting 
configured at boot like they used to.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a ton,
~Brian

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