RE: [hpoj-devel] How's HPJD support coming?

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi, Aaron.

Aaron Burt wrote:
> Hey there.  I've been following CVS in hopes of getting two 
> things working:
> (a) PTAL in SANE on Debian Sid, and (b) scanning via HPJD.
> 
> I'm setting up a Linux distro test box, so I'll be able to 
> play with other
> versions to see if (a) is distro-specific and get back to y'all.
A while back somebody (was it you?) reported problems with SANE and libptal
on Debian Sid.  I didn't have any ideas but offered to look into it if
somebody could give me a temporary non-root login account on a box running
this distribution.  I never got a response to this offer (which still stands
BTW) so I forgot about it until now.

> But is there a good chance of HPJD support in ptal-hp any 
> time soon?  If not,
> I can just go ahead and replace the JetDirect with a spare 
> computer running a
> SANE server, but it's nice to know first.
First of all, I should point out that currently, the SANE HP backend
(compiled with PTAL support) and ptal-hp support scanning on completely
disjoint sets of devices (see http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml).
Depending on what supported model you have, you can scan with either SANE or
ptal-hp, but currently not both.

If you have a SANE-supported MFP, JetDirect is already supported, but again
see http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/suplist.shtml for specifics about which
JetDirect models are supported and which devices work with JetDirect.  In
hp.conf, add something like the following two lines:
	hpjd:my-jdex.my-domain.com
	option connect-ptal
Of course, substitute for "my-jdex.my-domain.com" the actual hostname or IP
address of your JetDirect.  If you have a three-port JetDirect 500X, you can
append a ":1", ":2", or ":3" to indicate which port number the device is
connected to on the 500X.

If you have a "ptal-hp -scan"-supported MFP, JetDirect isn't supported yet,
but I plan to fix that in libptal eventually (probably in the next month or
so).

David