i just got a USB printer/scanner all in one thing. It's light years ahead of me, our last printer was just a laser printer, the likes of which i have been familiar with since high school.
Anyway, this new piece of technology has been okay so far. I haven't tried the memory card slot things at the front yet (because the bloody camera's lost) but it printed the test page fine when i put in the ink boxes, and printed a page okay when i printed a PDF. now. i installed a bunch of stuff (as they say) to try and get the scanner part going. i installed sane, xsane, hplip, hpoj, xsane and some other stuff. When i run xsane, i get this in a diag box:
No devices available <Close> <Help>
If i click "Help", then i get six helpful reasons for failure, two of which i don't understand, one of which is definitely not the case, two that are very unlikely in my opinion and one that's dumb.
It's definitely there when i do /sbin/lsusb :
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Bus 001 Device 005: ID 03f0:5d11 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0644:0000 TEAC Corp. Floppy
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:a700 Standard Microsystems Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6390 Alcor Micro Corp.
I googled and found many people using different versions of linux using similar printers/scanners having similar issues. I don't understand the whole concept, never having installed or configured a scanner before, and i have no idea which things might be distro specific, or even just bad advice, as a result. Have a look at some of my fumbling around before i got frustrated and came here:
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[root@harvey ~]# hp-setup
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 4.5
Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
Unable to connect to HPLIP I/O (hpssd).
error: Unable to connect to HPLIP I/O. Please (re)start HPLIP and try again.
[root@harvey ~]# hp
hp-align hp-fab hpiod hp-probe hp-toolbox
hpcdtoppm hp-firmware hp-levels hp-sendfax hp-unload
hp-check hpftodit hp-makecopies hp-setup
hp-clean hpijs hp-makeuri hp-testpage
hp-colorcal hp-info hp-print hp-timedate
[root@harvey ~]# hpiod
can't lock /var/run/hpiod.pid, running daemon's pid may be 5261: io/hpiod/hpiod.cpp 211
[root@harvey ~]# hp-toolbox
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 1.7.4a)
HP Device Manager ver. 10.0
Copyright (c) 2001-7 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.
error: Unable to connect to HPLIP I/O (hpssd).
[root@harvey ~]# hpssd
-bash: hpssd: command not found
i found a page (which i now can't find again) on sourceforge with an installer and a tarball, but i would rather not install stuff if i don't have too, non-rpms at least.
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks in advance......
