Hello, On Dec 13 22:36 John Andersen wrote (shortened):

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 20:37, M Harris wrote:

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Does the HPLIP driver work (correctly install, function with CUPS) on Suse 10.0, 10.1, 10.2...?

Yes and no. Yes if you mean that the RPM "correctly install(s)" and yes if you mean that HPLIP does "function with CUPS" (of course only for those devices which are supported by the particular HPLIP in the RPM which is included in the particular Suse Linux / openSUSE version). No if you mean that it is 100% supported in YaST. It should work o.k. in most cases (in particular for most USB devices) but nevertheless have a look at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=184798 and https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220712 For some information about HPLIP see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printer_Configuration_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.3_on http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.3 and for general information see http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 See the help text in the YaST scanner setup that neither parallel port scanners nor network scanners can be set up with YaST.

Seems to only work with parallel or USB connection. I have a net attached printer, and I can't get it to see the darned thing.

If you know that you device is kind of "darned", it is no surprise that it causes problems ;-) If you want to use the hp backend for a network device, you have to set it up manually, see the HPLIP documentation which is included it the RPMs which you have actually installed on your particular system. I cannot tell you any specific details because you don't tell us your Suse Linux / openSUSE version. For openSUSE 10.2 the HPLIP tool hp-setup works perfectly to set up a print queue for my network device. For pure manual setup of local connected devices, run the hp backend (but activate the needed services before): # insserv hplip # rchplip restart # rccups restart # /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp If this results your device note the DeviceURI which is the second field - i.e.: # /usr/lib/cups/backend/hp | cut -d' ' -f2 # lpadmin -p queue-name -v DeviceURI As device autodetection doesn't work for network devices you must find out the DeviceURI for your network device. For example with openSUSE 10.2 do # /usr/bin/hp-makeuri ip-of-the-network-device For scanning, activate the hpaio backend in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hello, On Dec 15 22:19 M Harris wrote (shortened):

... does the driver have the functionality ... for cleaning inkjet heads, displaying relative fluid levels, etc?

This question is model specific and only the experts at HP (and users who have exactly your model) can answer it, see http://hplip.sourceforge.net/supported_devices/index.html and http://hplip.sourceforge.net/mailing_lists.html Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org