HP Laserjet 5P in Fedora 14

[Mike Williams]

> On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 17:46 -0500, Manuel Escudero wrote:
>> 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
>>
When I installed f14 the following packages were included in the installation:
Installing hplip-common-3.10.6-3.fc14.i686
Installing hplip-libs-3.10.6-3.fc14.i686
Installing hpijs-3.10.6-3.fc14.i686
Installing hplip-3.10.6-3.fc14.i686
Installing libsane-hpaio-3.10.6-3.fc14.i686

I did not have to install anything to get the printer working.  It was
an HP, but a different model, and has a network interface, so there
are some differences, but there was nothing additional that had to be
installed.

>> 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.
>>
Not sure this was a good idea.

>> What am I doing wrong?

My setup required some additional steps to add some iptables rules,
but the basic thing I did was use:

System/Administration/Printing

click on Add

Then followed the gui through selecting the printer model, etc.  It
all went very smoothly and worked the first time.

If you have already tried this and it did not work, it might be worth
using yum to re-install the hp packages - the hp binary may have hosed
something.

If it still isn't working, post what gets written to /var/log/messages
when you plug the printer in.

Mike