Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 02 March 2009 16:12:04 Roger Wells wrote: > >> Thanks for responding. >> I guess I would be a little surprised to expect a regression like that. >> After all both CUPS and hp-toolbox are installed in CentOS 5.2 right out >> of the box. >> I also have an HP C6180 and I think that getting past this is necessary >> before its scanner >> will be recognized. At least the scanner is not recognized yet by the >> CentOS Gnome "Scanner Tool" >> >> > It sounds to me as though this is an hplip problem. The version in CentOS is > not the latest, and doesn't support recent printers out-of-the-box. ISTR that > I had to grab the relevant ppd file from one of my other boxes (or the > Internet, of course) and feed that to CUPS, after which hplip could see my > printer and scanner. (Mine is a PhotoSmart 7180). > > Thanks Anne, I did discover that I was running a newer version of hplip on the old RHEL4 installation. I have now downloaded and installed the latest hplip and hp-setup won't even run. So I am tracking that down now. There were a number of missing "optional" dependencies. roger > Anne > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells at saic.com