On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > I found that their CentOS instructions were a bit off. I have my own > page on hplip for CentOS. There's an rpmforge rpm as well, but using > that one, I wasn't able to scan. > > http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/hplip.html > That was most helpful . . . but: I followed your instructions to the letter and got this result after the build, turning the 6500 on and having it plugged in: [mar at marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ service cups status cupsd (pid 3723) is running... [mar at marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 <<< the 6500 should show up here Bus 002 Device 004: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c <<< my old scanner Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 [mar at marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ which hp-setup /usr/bin/hp-setup [mar at marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ hp-setup -i warning: python-dbus not installed. <<< AFAICT, there is no such package. HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.10.6) Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0 Copyright (c) 2001-9 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. (Note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press <enter> to accept the default.) -------------------------------- | SELECT CONNECTION (I/O) TYPE | -------------------------------- Num Connection Description Type -------- ---------- ---------------------------------------------------------- 0* usb Universal Serial Bus (USB) 1 net Network/Ethernet/Wireless (direct connection or JetDirect) Enter number 0...1 for connection type (q=quit, enter=usb*) ? 0 Using connection type: usb error: No device selected/specified or that supports this functionality. [mar at marichter hplip-3.10.6]$ yg python-dbus (alias yg='yum list | grep -i') I have selinux disabled. I was able to plug the 6500 into my son's WinXP box and it worked there, but I'd SO much rather use xsane than the scanner's control panel - it's god-awfully slow, and windows takes almost as long as the scan process itself to finish processing the PDF, and I don't get the individua page images from multipage scans (like xsane provides). I used the same USB cable for both host connections, and I've switched connections on my host between the two open USB ports and neither one works (although they work just fine for all my other semi-permanently-attached USB devices, mainly my Brother laser printer and the old HP Scanjet (and the HP Officejet that broke - it still recognizes that when it's plugged in, but the scanner refuses to work). Any other ideas? What am I missing? TIA. Mark