hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Mar 28 22:17:16 UTC 2007
On Wednesday 28 March 2007 16:20:24 Hans de Goede wrote:
> /me too,
>
> Can we please stop the HP bashing, they are doing a great job in providing
> support for their hardware, if their tools need better integration into the
> rest of Linux, then work with them, instead of bashing them / their
> software.
I'd wager their tools need to be better period.
I just unpacked a new HP photosmart C3180 multipurpose thingy. I wanted to
print out my flight eticket. After all this discussion I figured I'd give it
a try. After powering on and attaching the printer via usb, I ask yum to
install hplip. After downloading a 10+ megs of software, I had hplip on my
system. I tried to <alt>-f2 and typed in hp-toolbox as that would be what
the menu called. Nothing. Tried again, nothing. The hell? Try it from a
console, HO! A daemon isn't running and so the software just yells about not
being able to connect to "HPLIP I/O (hpiod)" whatever the hell that is.
Helpful. Being a bit cluefull about these things, I guess it wants the hplip
service to be running. So start the daemon, try again, and I get a big
screen about no installed HP devices found. Ok, there is a setup device
button, click it, nothing detected. Find Manually asks me for a cryptic USB
ID which it gives me no clue as how to find it. Helpful.
So I give up on this, close it, stop the service.
I instead try System -> Administration -> Printing
New printer
Fill in details about name, description, location
Hit next and look at that, it automatically detected I had a USB printer
plugged in and even had the right name. Forward again, pick the closest HP
driver from the list (HP Photosmart C3100) finalize and boom I can print a
test job, and furthermore print my etickets.
Yeah, this is great software allright. *sigh*
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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