HP Laserjet 5P in Fedora 14

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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On 06/19/2011 08:45 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
> 
If I remember correctly, the 5P is a parallel printer. You may have
to use CUPS to install a parallel printer, especially if the
parallel port module and the parallel printer module are not being
loaded. I have not checked lately to see if they are loaded by default.

Mikkel
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