Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 16:12:04 Roger Wells wrote:
>
>> Thanks for responding.
>> I guess I would be a little surprised to expect a regression like that.
>> After all both CUPS and hp-toolbox are installed in CentOS 5.2 right out
>> of the box.
>> I also have an HP C6180 and I think that getting past this is necessary
>> before its scanner
>> will be recognized. At least the scanner is not recognized yet by the
>> CentOS Gnome "Scanner Tool"
>>
>>
> It sounds to me as though this is an hplip problem. The version in CentOS is
> not the latest, and doesn't support recent printers out-of-the-box. ISTR that
> I had to grab the relevant ppd file from one of my other boxes (or the
> Internet, of course) and feed that to CUPS, after which hplip could see my
> printer and scanner. (Mine is a PhotoSmart 7180).
>
>
Thanks Anne,
I did discover that I was running a newer version of hplip on the old
RHEL4 installation. I have now downloaded and
installed the latest hplip and hp-setup won't even run. So I am
tracking that down now. There were a number of
missing "optional" dependencies.
roger
> Anne
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