Thanks Anne, I look forward to what you com up with. roger Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 12:26:21 Roger Wells wrote: > >>> As I wrote elsewhere, it doesn't need to be so bleeding edge. I have a >>> stock 5.2 install. My Photosmart 7180 was not supported. I downloaded >>> the relevant .ppd and pointed CUPS and hplip to it, and printing worked >>> after that. >>> >>> >>> >> How about scanning? >> > > Sorry for the delay - I had to go out. > > Last month the village had severe power problems, and my server's (CentOS) > ~/.kde was completely trashed. It broke a lot of things, and I'm only still > finding and correcting them. However... > > It seems that I got printing working through CUPS, but didn't get around to > re-installing hplip. I tried to, using the supplied version, but it did not > find the installed printer. I then tried the hplip-3.9.2.run - presumably > left over from the last install? Anyway, it flagged up a couple of > dependencies which I fixed, then got to libusb. Libusb is installed, but it > couldn't find it. And there I stuck. > > I don't have time to do any more on this today, but I'll get back to you > if/when I get it sorted. I may have to ask a question on-list about why it > can't see the package (or is this another case of too early a version?). I'll > see what I can do. > > FWIW, the version running on this Mandriva 2009 laptop is 2.8.7 - that gives > me all the print tools, but fails to find the scanner. My Fedora 10 netbook > has 2.8.12-6.fc10 - and works, including the scanner, both from the hp-toolbox > and from applications. I have a feeling that this 2.8.12 is the version that > I installed manually a long time ago, being the earliest that could support > the PhotoSmart 7180. Tomorrow I'll try to find the packages for that, and see > whether I can install that on the CentOS box. > > 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