[Nottingham] hplip what' wrong?

[david at gbenet.com]

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On 02/05/12 18:25, Jason Irwin wrote:
> On 02/05/12 13:41, david at gbenet.com wrote:
>> My printer is set to 192.168.1.72 - having spent 4 days with opensuse I can only conclude
>> that there is no support for my HP Photosmart C4780 wireless printer. The HP set up
>> programme recognises that I have a temporary usb device and identifies the printer correctly
>> but when you unplug the usb device you have lost your printer.
> 
> Naw, support is as good as it gets with HP.
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/photosmart/photosmart_c4700_series.html
> 
> If you are there tonight, I can offer suggestions as there are a few
> quick checks.  To be honest it sounds more like a network issue.  But I
> could be wrong (often am).  Not clear if you are trying WiFi via a
> router or direct PC-to-printer in some ad-hoc way.  If a router, make
> sure the printer is getting assigned a fixed IP and then check is
> http://<printer ip>. works (that should hit the embedded web server)
> 
> I have a wireless HP too, so I could test it myself later on.
> 
> J.
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Hi Jason,

So no wireless networking for the HP Photosmart 4780 CentOS Debian Fedora Gentoo Linux Mint
Mandriva PCLinux Red Hat Slackware Suse and Ubuntu all of which I have tried.

There was a time when HP fully supported ALL its printers under Linux - not so any more.
Thanks for the info.

David

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