More info re. F4180 scan problems

Thu Jan 21 14:54:45 UTC 2010

I tried running hp-scan and got:

bash-4.0$ hp-scan

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8)
Scan Utility ver. 2.2

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.

Using device: hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_F4100_series?serial=CN7C66W0GB04TJ

warning: No destinations specified. Adding 'file' destination by default.
warning: File destination enabled with no output file specified.
Setting output format to JPEG for color/lineart mode.
warning: Defaulting to '/home/colin/hpscan001.jpg'.
error: Unable to locate device hpaio:/usb/Deskjet_F4100_series?serial=CN7C66W0GB04TJ using SANE backend hpaio:. Please check HPLIP installation.

AND:

bash-4.0$ rpm -q hplip
hplip-3.9.8-21.fc12.x86_64
bash-4.0$ 

Am i supposed to run any programs for the installation - I would have
thought yum would do that automatically.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire