On Saturday 18 December 2004 09:32 pm, Terry Eck wrote:
Printer worked until today. Running SuSE 9.2. Printer is HP Laserjet 1100A.
Tried installing hpoj-0.91 in an attempt to get the scanner to work. Somewhere along the line the printer no longer works.
I am hesitant to reply , because I haven't used this printer, I use a hp psc 2400xi all-in-one, but the problems I had may apply. A look at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1100A shows it should work with hpoj. Since you have installed hpoj, have you run ptal-init and answered the questions? I believe you will need to do that to get the scanner working any way and it is the only way to get both printer and scanner. ptal must run as a service after it is setup (and I think that will be done during the ptal-init, but you might want to check). Even with that done, when I set up the printer with yast (/dev/usb0 or the psc2400 device that was detected), I couldn't get the scanner to work, and if I messed around to get the scanner working, I would lose the printer. On reboot, I almost always had to redetect and setup the printer again. Sometimes I had to delete the printer and set it up again. I solved the problem by using cups to set up the printer. I read somewhere that i had to use the PTAL device to get things working and Yast didn't offer the PTAL device but cups did. Since using cups to set things up, all works as expected and survives reboot. Try it, I've got a feeling you'll like it. Hope that helps Doug