Re: [hpoj-devel] Problems with PSC1350

[James B. H. <jh...@vi...>]

> Hi there,

Hi.

> I am just starting to use Linux in my desktop, and decided to give a try with 
> REDHAT 9. The installation was really smoth, and I got almost all working 
> except the printer (at am stucked at this point). 
> 
> I have a HP PSC 1350 Multifunctional. After a quick research over the web, I 

Hi.  I don't have any knowledge of your printer, and I don't use RedHat,
so I can't address anything from those points of view.  But I'll do what
I can.

> found some instructions on how to proceed with this printer and Linux using 
> the hpijs drivers. I followed the instructions carefully with hpijs 1.6:

You don't say anything about installing or using hpoj, but you did send
email to this list.  Did you in fact install and test hpoj precisely
according to instructions that come with it?

> 1) Have the tar driver downloaded
> 2) untared driver 
> 3) move to untared directory (hpijs-1.6)
> 4) run ./configure from prompt
> 5) run make
> 6) login as su
> 7) run make install
> 8) verified intallation with hpijs -h

This seems fine for hpijs.  As above, what about hpoj?

> After that I tryed to add the printer. The system identified correctly my 
> printer (hp 1300 series appears beside the printer mounting path) but when I 
> try to select the right Printer from teh HP list, the printer is missing!

This part is something I can't address, because it seems to be information
coming from some RedHat-provided utility that I don't know about.  But
just guessing, it would seem that the utility knows about HP printers
enough to list the family that yours belongs in, but if you've not
installed, or correctly installed, hpoj, "the system" wouldn't be able
to talk to your printer to know it is present.

> Some could shine some light on his subject? Am I doing something wrong?

Hopefully this is some light, and yes, I think you're missing hpoj.  If
you have installed it, we need to know about that.

thx,
jbh