On 3/28/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 16:20:24 Hans de Goede wrote: > /me too, > > Can we please stop the HP bashing, they are doing a great job in providing > support for their hardware, if their tools need better integration into the > rest of Linux, then work with them, instead of bashing them / their > software. I'd wager their tools need to be better period. I just unpacked a new HP photosmart C3180 multipurpose thingy. I wanted to print out my flight eticket. After all this discussion I figured I'd give it a try. After powering on and attaching the printer via usb, I ask yum to install hplip. After downloading a 10+ megs of software, I had hplip on my system. I tried to <alt>-f2 and typed in hp-toolbox as that would be what the menu called. Nothing. Tried again, nothing. The hell? Try it from a console, HO! A daemon isn't running and so the software just yells about not being able to connect to "HPLIP I/O (hpiod)" whatever the hell that is. Helpful. Being a bit cluefull about these things, I guess it wants the hplip service to be running. So start the daemon, try again, and I get a big screen about no installed HP devices found. Ok, there is a setup device button, click it, nothing detected. Find Manually asks me for a cryptic USB ID which it gives me no clue as how to find it. Helpful. So I give up on this, close it, stop the service. I instead try System -> Administration -> Printing New printer Fill in details about name, description, location Hit next and look at that, it automatically detected I had a USB printer plugged in and even had the right name. Forward again, pick the closest HP driver from the list (HP Photosmart C3100) finalize and boom I can print a test job, and furthermore print my etickets. Yeah, this is great software allright. *sigh* -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
Jesse, If you had the hp daemons in, all you had to do was use CUPS to install it. You don't need to use the HP toolkit at all . -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
