I've installed HP's driver for my usb PSC2110 and seems to work ok (at the moment), the problem is trying to access the utilities 'device manager and setup of a network' it cannot use a socket as shown:-
[root@reddwarf ~]# /usr/share/hplip/toolbox toolbox toolbox HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.2) toolbox HP Device Manager ver. 4.0 toolbox toolbox Copyright (c) 2003-5 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP toolbox This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. toolbox This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it toolbox under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. toolbox toolbox Listening on localhost port 32775 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/hplip/toolbox", line 446, in ? sys.exit( main( sys.argv[1:] ) ) File "/usr/share/hplip/toolbox", line 368, in main toolbox = devmgr4( toolboxCleanup ) File "/usr/share/hplip/ui/devmgr4.py", line 244, in __init__ self.hpiod_sock.connect( ( prop.hpiod_host, prop.hpiod_port ) ) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')
[root@reddwarf hplip]# ./probe -bnet
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 0.9.2) Device Detection (Probe) Utility ver. 1.1
Copyright (c) 2003-5 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.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "./probe", line 161, in ? hpssd_sock.connect( ( prop.hpssd_host, prop.hpssd_port ) ) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: (111, 'Connection refused')
This is from syslog
May 2 13:09:27 reddwarf hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such file or directory May 2 13:09:27 reddwarf hp: unable to connect to socket: Connection refused
Has anyone installed this and seen something similar
david