fedora 17 hates me

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> It printed, but only gibberish, including the test page.
>> That seemed a familiar problem, but I did not remember how to handle it.
>> Eventually, I remembered hplip and told yum to install it.
>> Still no go.
>> When I tell the GUI I have an HPLIP printer,
>> "See "Network Printers" for the correct URI to use with your printer."
>> http://localhost:631/ipp does not work, no such URI.
>> http://127.0.0.1:631/ipp does not work either.
>> There is no error message, it just does not print.
>
> Oops.  After I "resume printer" I get
> "The printer URI is incorrect or no longer exists."

It seems that if one goes through the menus enough times,
one will eventually get an option that works.
I have printing now.

My Fedora 14 is still inaccessible.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily