Re: [hpoj-devel] Announce: hplip-0.8.2

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Monday 06 December 2004 07:18, Cory Meisch wrote:
> Introducing HPLIP

hplip looks very promising. I hope that before long, it will include better 
support for net-connected devices. For home use (printing from a wireless 
laptop, for example), it's very convenient to have the all-in-one accessible 
without having to turn on the computer it would otherwise depend on.

The docs should be more clear about what actually works/doesn't work yet, IMO.
When I tried to follow the documentation for setting up printing,
'probe -bnet' wouldn't work. Apparently the '-bnet' option is unsupported. I 
had to guess at the device string to enter in CUPS. After guessing that  
hp:/net/Photosmart_2600_series?ip=(printer's LAN address) might work, I tried 
it and it did.

I noticed that scanning over LAN is in the TODO list. I hope it will be added 
soon. When I try to start xsane, it can't find the PSC's scanner. Using hpoj, 
the scanner is accessible.

/usr/hplip/toolbox starts up and mostly works. It can't access the PSC's 
scanner, though.

'/etc/init.d/hplip start' returns 'OK' for hpiod and hpssd, but 'hplip status' 
returns an incorrect answer:

]# /etc/init.d/hplip status
hpiod (pid 5566) is running...
hpssd dead but pid file exists

But hpssd is actually running:
]# ps ax | grep hp
 5566 ?        S      0:00 ./hpiod
 5574 ?        S      0:00 python ./hpssd.py


Regarding photocard access, I don't see a way to copy JPEGs to the card over 
LAN. I hope it can be implemented.

Thanks for working on this, hpinkjet folks.

-- 
Joe Piolunek