Hp P1005

[David Jansen]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:14:17AM +0100, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> >>>> But it is here:
> >>>> Bus 007 Device 006: ID 03f0:3d17 Hewlett-Packard
> >>>
> >>> Are you using the GUI? Did you tell it to look for USB printers (hplip
> >>> supports parallel and network printers as well). Sorry for the stupid
> >>> questions but the docs say the 1007 is supported.
> >>
> >> Yes I do have hplip-gui installed and it does try to look that the USB,
> >> etc..
> >> I really looks like that it is the problem with FC7, because I cannot
> >> install a recent version of hplip, 1.7.4 is too low, it looks that that I
> >> need a 2.8
> >>
> >
> >
> > Get the latest drivers from here
> > http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=851608
> >
> > And here is the changelog.  P1005 was added around 2.8.2 I think,
> > http://hplip.sourceforge.net/release_notes.html
> >
> Thank for the advise.
> This it what I did.
> but after making make install. the hplip-1.7.4 (rpm) is this here
> and I got the errors that I previously mention.
> If I remove the rpm hplip.1.7.4 package, and make an install
> of hplip.2.8.7, I lost also the hp-setup, etc... commands even after
> I reinstall, so I have to reinstall the rpm hplip.1.7.4 !
> 
> I do not understand why I cannot get the hp-   etc... commands
> from hplip-2.8.7.tgz !

If you installed the new version from source, you may want to check were
it gets installed. Probably in /usr/local, which is a good location for
software that doesn't come from an rpm. But by default, it is not in
your path. Also, many administrative utilities usually end up in one of
the sbin directories (eg /usr/local/sbin), and those are by default only
in root's path (and fedora packages often set up consolehelper for users
to prompt them for the root password before running such applications.

So take a look in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin and if the tool is
there, you may try running it from there.

David Jansen