HP Laserjet 5P in Fedora 14

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 17:46 -0500, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> I've seen that in Fedora you only have to plug in a printer
> and it usually gets recognized and work, You just have to
> install these packages:
> 
> 
> sudo yum -y install hplip hplip-common
> 
> and if you have a HP scanner:
> 
> sudo yum -y install libsane-hpaio
> 
> It has been working for me like that since
> F13 with two or three HP printers and All in Ones
> But now I tried it in F14 with a HP Laserjet 5P
> and it doesn't work, System does not recognize printer
> when I plug it in the USB port (it's a Parallell to USB connection)
> 
> 
> I already tried installing HPLiP from the HP binary
> and it gave me a GUI, but the printer is still not getting
> recognized, it's like I never plug it to the PC.
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
I don't know what you are doing wrong. But the default installation of
F15 on my machine has: hplip, hplip-libs, hplip-common and libsane-hpaio
are all installed.


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