On Monday 02 March 2009 19:39:00 Robert Nichols wrote: > 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). > > According to the changelogs, support for the Photosmart C6100 series > first appeared in hplip version 1.6.9. The latest version in the > CentOS updates repository is 1.6.7. When I got my Photosmart C7180 > I grabbed hplip-1.7.4a-3.fc6.i386.rpm from Fedora Core 6, and I've > been running with that ever since. I was about to download and install a later version when I decided to try just adding the ppd. It worked fine, and was less work, but either solution is fine. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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