Re: [opensuse] Giving up - network printing with opensuse
I remember when I tried to set up our Brother wireless laser printer, it was a royal pain in 12.2. Autodiscover wouldn't find it (despite 11.4 and earlier versions finding it right away,) and I had to trick it to look at the IP directly. I don't remember how I did that now, but I was able to get it working. If I remember when I get home tonight, I'll try to reproduce how I got it to connect. Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Sorry, I hit "reply" instead of "reply list" and I thought I should resend this so the whole list can see it; it may be useful to others. I setup a Samsung laser printer on my 12.2 laptop / desktop network through a router that also handles many wireless devices. I was really frustrated for a while. I finally gave up on Samba and used the print server / client setup through YAST. I had to use IP addresses and auto-discover would not work for me either. It took a bit of fiddling with settings to get it all working, and I had to open ports on the server and router. It now works perfectly, which is a pretty big victory considering how poorly the Samsung drivers work with Linux. Hope this helps. Jim On 01/29/2013 09:14 AM, Christopher Myers wrote:
I remember when I tried to set up our Brother wireless laser printer, it was a royal pain in 12.2. Autodiscover wouldn't find it (despite 11.4 and earlier versions finding it right away,) and I had to trick it to look at the IP directly. I don't remember how I did that now, but I was able to get it working. If I remember when I get home tonight, I'll try to reproduce how I got it to connect. Chris
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2013-01-29 17:12 keltezéssel, Jim Sabatke írta:
Sorry, I hit "reply" instead of "reply list" and I thought I should resend this so the whole list can see it; it may be useful to others.
I setup a Samsung laser printer on my 12.2 laptop / desktop network through a router that also handles many wireless devices. I was really frustrated for a while. I finally gave up on Samba and used the print server / client setup through YAST. I had to use IP addresses and auto-discover would not work for me either. It took a bit of fiddling with settings to get it all working, and I had to open ports on the server and router. It now works perfectly, which is a pretty big victory considering how poorly the Samsung drivers work with Linux.
Hope this helps.
Jim
On 01/29/2013 09:14 AM, Christopher Myers wrote:
I remember when I tried to set up our Brother wireless laser printer, it was a royal pain in 12.2. Autodiscover wouldn't find it (despite 11.4 and earlier versions finding it right away,) and I had to trick it to look at the IP directly. I don't remember how I did that now, but I was able to get it working. If I remember when I get home tonight, I'll try to reproduce how I got it to connect. Chris
I am still struggling with it. Once I was nearly succeeded cause trying to set the printer up in Yast and checking connection was successful. But printing test page was not. Changed to CUPS and it said (also after trying to print a test page) that "no such file or directory". Another error message I got somewhere is that foomatic-rip failed. Not too informative for me. Regards, Albert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:50:42 Oszkó Albert wrote:
[...] I am still struggling with it. Once I was nearly succeeded cause trying to set the printer up in Yast and checking connection was successful. But printing test page was not. Changed to CUPS and it said (also after trying to print a test page) that "no such file or directory". Another error message I got somewhere is that foomatic-rip failed. Not too informative for me.
Regards, Albert
Albert, Make sure you have the latest hplips package installed. I downloaded it direct from hp and installed it that way. Then, use the graphical setup tool which will be installed, but autodiscover may not work. Set it up manually and tell it the fixed IP address of the printer. That is how I set mine up and it "just works". It automatically installed the CUPS drivers and I've never had an issue (except that occassionally the HP printer stops talking to the WiFi network and needs a restart, but the frequency of that is measured in months, not days). Don't try to set it up via Yast - I had no success with that for some reason. The HP-provided package worked much better than the disto-provided one. YMMV. Regards, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
2013-01-30 00:31 keltezéssel, Rodney Baker írta:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:50:42 Oszkó Albert wrote:
[...] I am still struggling with it. Once I was nearly succeeded cause trying to set the printer up in Yast and checking connection was successful. But printing test page was not. Changed to CUPS and it said (also after trying to print a test page) that "no such file or directory". Another error message I got somewhere is that foomatic-rip failed. Not too informative for me.
Regards, Albert Albert,
Make sure you have the latest hplips package installed. I downloaded it direct from hp and installed it that way. Then, use the graphical setup tool which will be installed, but autodiscover may not work. Set it up manually and tell it the fixed IP address of the printer.
That is how I set mine up and it "just works". It automatically installed the CUPS drivers and I've never had an issue (except that occassionally the HP printer stops talking to the WiFi network and needs a restart, but the frequency of that is measured in months, not days).
Don't try to set it up via Yast - I had no success with that for some reason. The HP-provided package worked much better than the disto-provided one.
YMMV.
Regards, Rodney.
I also answer here to Dirk, cause there is no Reply to list option for his letter. The answer is yes, I can ping the network printer. I have the latest hplip package, though from the distro, not from HP. I agree, the correct yast setup is rather difficult - at least for me, and is not intuitive at all. Regards, Albert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:23:52 Albert, Oszkó wrote:
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Make sure you have the latest hplips package installed. I downloaded it direct from hp and installed it that way. Then, use the graphical setup tool which will be installed, but autodiscover may not work. Set it up manually and tell it the fixed IP address of the printer.
That is how I set mine up and it "just works". It automatically installed the CUPS drivers and I've never had an issue (except that occassionally the HP printer stops talking to the WiFi network and needs a restart, but the frequency of that is measured in months, not days).
Don't try to set it up via Yast - I had no success with that for some reason. The HP-provided package worked much better than the disto-provided one.
YMMV.
Regards, Rodney.
I also answer here to Dirk, cause there is no Reply to list option for his letter. The answer is yes, I can ping the network printer. I have the latest hplip package, though from the distro, not from HP. I agree, the correct yast setup is rather difficult - at least for me, and is not intuitive at all.
Last time I checked the distro release was at least one version behind that available on the HP web site and it did not work for me. It seems not to have the full functionality - for example, the gui config tool did not work (it seems to want to use yast intead) and I could not make it work that way. The package from the HP web site "just worked" (once it resolved a couple of minor dependencies during installation. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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"Albert, Oszkó"
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Christopher Myers
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Jim Sabatke
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Oszkó Albert
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Rodney Baker