Is ANYBODY there? (was: i/o error)

A while back I asked about my HPOJ 6110, which stopped working for me
after a few Debian upgrades.  The debugging output is at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272304 and also 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283018 .

Is hpoj still being maintained?  Is the 6110 still supported?  Is HP
monitoring this list?  Are any developers here by any chance?  Are  HP
OfficeJets obsolete on Linux and I didn't find out?

I would really appreciate ANY help, ideas, comments, things to try,
comments about HP or the hpoj project's viability, or
ANYTHING here.  Is there ANY more debugging I can do to help narrow it
down?  If there were, is there anybody there to read it?

Of course it's free software, and nobody is obligated, but it would
really be great.  I am at the end of my rope, and my former high
degree of respect for HP products has really fizzled away.  I have now
had months of downtime.

Thanks.

P.S.  Are there any HP people at all assigned to this project?  Is it
simply dead in the water?  Will I have to throw away my new Officejet,
which worked perfectly for a few weeks then after some Debian upgrades
stopped working, and start with something else?  It's completely
useless to me now, yet it is the most
important thing I do with my computer by far (it helps work around a
disability issue by A LOT but I found no other ADF scanner at this
price and I thought it would be supported so I bought it).

P.P.S.  If an HP person could comment (even by telling me that I was
foolish to buy it for Linux!), that would help me, since I will then
at least know my prospects for getting it to be anything but a very
large clock with a very small display and a mostly cosmetic tail.

P.P.S.  Thanks again for any help of any kind.


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