[opensuse] Need Help Getting Opensuse 10.3 printing system and HP-Tool Box Working
Hi all: I am having problems get HP-Tool box working. I am using a new install of Opensuse 10.3. It is up to date. I have updated HP-LIP to the lateest version 2.8.4 on recommendation of the HP-Lip help list. So far I can use the printer, but can not get HP-Toolbox to recognize the printer no matter how I configure printer. I believe the problem is with Suse print system. When I delete the printer profile it leaves a non-configured profile in Yast:Hardware-printer. When I configure/edit the non-configured printer profile I am left with that profile and a new one that is properly edited. The non-configured profile does not go away even when the printer is powered off. I believe the extra profile confuses HP-Toolbox. Can someone help me sort this out. Thank you very much. -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Kubuntu 7.10 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM & Yahoo ralphfdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp Current Linux uptime: 0:34, days users hours minutes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Hi all: I am having problems get HP-Tool box working. I am using a new install of Opensuse 10.3. It is up to date. I have updated HP-LIP to the lateest version 2.8.4 on recommendation of the HP-Lip help list. So far I can use the printer, but can not get HP-Toolbox to recognize the printer no matter how I configure printer. I believe the problem is with Suse print system. When I delete the printer profile it leaves a non-configured profile in Yast:Hardware-printer. When I configure/edit the non-configured printer profile I am left with that profile and a new one that is properly edited. The non-configured profile does not go away even when the printer is powered off. I believe the extra profile confuses HP-Toolbox. Can someone help me sort this out. Thank you very much.
When you start HP-Toolbox a window pops up that tells you no devices were found. If that is the case there is a note at the bottom of that window that states the device needs to be installed using the hp: device. Did you do that? The other solution is to use HP-toolbox to create the printer instance instead of YaST or cups. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ralph De Witt pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hi all: I am having problems get HP-Tool box working. I am using a new install of Opensuse 10.3. It is up to date. I have updated HP-LIP to the lateest version 2.8.4 on recommendation of the HP-Lip help list. So far I can use the printer, but can not get HP-Toolbox to recognize the printer no matter how I configure printer. I believe the problem is with Suse print system. When I delete the printer profile it leaves a non-configured profile in Yast:Hardware-printer. When I configure/edit the non-configured printer profile I am left with that profile and a new one that is properly edited. The non-configured profile does not go away even when the printer is powered off. I believe the extra profile confuses HP-Toolbox. Can someone help me sort this out. Thank you very much.
When you start HP-Toolbox a window pops up that tells you no devices were found. If that is the case there is a note at the bottom of that window that states the device needs to be installed using the hp: device. Did you do that? The other solution is to use HP-toolbox to create the printer instance instead of YaST or cups.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 Ken: Not too sure what you are asking. But in the past I have used Yast Hardware-printer, and HP-Toolbox and a termainal window using the command hp -setup (if I remember correctly) all as sudo. This always created a new
On Friday 25 April 2008 17:08:14 Ken Schneider wrote: profile in Yast hardware-printer, plus the unconfigured profile remained and HP-Toolbox still did not recognize a printer. Should not the non-configured profile be deleted/replaced by the new/edited profile. Not sure how all this is supposed to work. Hope this is some help to you. -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Kubuntu 7.10 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM & Yahoo ralphfdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.6.22.17-0.1-bigsmp Current Linux uptime: 5:41, days users hours minutes. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ralph De Witt pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2008 17:08:14 Ken Schneider wrote:
When you start HP-Toolbox a window pops up that tells you no devices were found. If that is the case there is a note at the bottom of that window that states the device needs to be installed using the hp: device. Did you do that? The other solution is to use HP-toolbox to create the printer instance instead of YaST or cups.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 Ken: Not too sure what you are asking. But in the past I have used Yast Hardware-printer, and HP-Toolbox and a termainal window using the command hp -setup (if I remember correctly) all as sudo. This always created a new profile in Yast hardware-printer, plus the unconfigured profile remained and HP-Toolbox still did not recognize a printer. Should not the non-configured profile be deleted/replaced by the new/edited profile.
No. You can have as many "profiles" as you want with each having a different printer setup, (resolution, paper size, etc.).
Not sure how all this is supposed to work. Hope this is some help to you.
The best/easiest solution is to use HP-toolbox to create the printer. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 04/26/2008 01:20 AM, Ralph De Witt wrote:
Hi all: I am having problems get HP-Tool box working. I am using a new install of Opensuse 10.3. It is up to date. I have updated HP-LIP to the lateest version 2.8.4 on recommendation of the HP-Lip help list. So far I can use the printer, but can not get HP-Toolbox to recognize the printer no matter how I configure printer. I believe the problem is with Suse print system. When I delete the printer profile it leaves a non-configured profile in Yast:Hardware-printer. When I configure/edit the non-configured printer profile I am left with that profile and a new one that is properly edited. The non-configured profile does not go away even when the printer is powered off. I believe the extra profile confuses HP-Toolbox. Can someone help me sort this out. Thank you very much.
You should uninstall the version you installed and install the version from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsmeix/openSUSE_10.3/ He has an up to date 2.8.4 version tailored to openSUSE, with a few patches that makes it work better and integrate better with openSUSE. The problem you describe sounds like a permission problem caused by an incorrect udev rule or something else related. It would be best to work with the packages above if you still had problems. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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