On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:30:28PM -0800, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Gabriel: > > You provided the necessary piece of info that I overlooked (as we would > say in the States .. "Bingo!"). > > I had all the rpms, but what happened was I got fooled by the > "system-config-print cups hpijs" setup through admin->printing in which > it was able to search and find without my doing anything. I was trying > the Network/Ethernet/Wireless expecting the same. I looked in the > advance options for an alternative rather than thinking of using it "in > addition to". As I had already realized I needed the printer to be > static IP and got that done this morning, I did the "manual discovery" > and it worked. I would say hp-setup found it but its more like your > suggestion was "stopping looking all over, its right under your nose at > this address!". > > When I print something (an html, for example), I am now seeing two > instances of the printer ... the one created through > "system-config-print cups hpijs" and a second created to hp-setup. I am > assuming that I can delete the first and that the whole "system-[...]" > sequence could have been skipped in favor of hp-setup. I want to test > with a bunch of different situations, plus do on both F14 and F16 (I > just tested with F14 as its beside me and not downstairs ... I've gone > up and down them so many times, I've gotten my manditory exercise for > the day!). > > The great part was that when I ran the scanner tool, xsane immediately > found the HP 7510 and scans like a champ. Mind you, the HP 7510 won't > scan directly to the Linux box as it only wants to acknowledge where the > "official HP software is" (the XP box), but that's academic as I have no > problems with do all scans as "pulls" rather than being able to "push" > --- I usually pull scans from my XP rather than start the process out on > the printer/scanner. I did reboots to make sure it wasn't a matter of > something needing to be kicked. > > Tomorrow I'll run the full set of tests. > > I really really thank you (assume html bold/italic here). Though it may > seem obvious to use the "manual" option, I was too deep into trying to > figure out all the different things that might be happening that > "obvious" was just not in my range. > > My thanks also go to Terry for all his help. Everything worked per his > advice once the "obvious" was painted on the side of a big barn for me > to see. > Paul, glad you figgered it out. I had a feeling it was something of this type. Like I say, 'the computer is always right, or garbage in...' ;) Terry -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
