HP DeskJet 3630 wireless configuration difficulty

Novatian · 09-24-2016, 07:40 AM

Currently I am configuring an HP DeskJet 3630 in Fedora 24 and Mint. Configuring the printer by USB was easy, but the wireless part is tricky.

It seems to want to use the router name. I thought it would be picked up on the computer and I just choose the printer name and print. Or have a password. The printer generates a five minute PIN. And has a URI address.

The printer came with a CD for Windows and Mac.

If anyone else has configured a wireless HP I'd like to know how?

tronayne · 09-24-2016, 08:27 AM

Are you configuring with HPLIP?

If not, simply execute (as "you," not root)

Code:

hp-setup

Makes life easier.

Hope this helps some.

Novatian · 09-24-2016, 09:30 AM

error: Install the hplip-gui package for graphical support.
warning: GUI Modules PyQt4 and PyQt5 are not installed
error: hp-setup requires GUI support (try running with --qt3). Also, try using interactive (-i) mode.

I got the above reading

tronayne · 09-24-2016, 09:50 AM

You should have X running, open a terminal window and execute hp-setup.

You may want to install Python (it's handy for a lot of things).

Did you try the interactive mode?

Code:

hp-setup -i

Or did you try

Code:

hp-setup -qt3

Hope this helps some.

hazel · 09-24-2016, 09:59 AM

Yes, hp-setup is part of hplip, which is HP's own driver collection for its printers and scanners. Fortunately, hplip is free software so most distros have it available for installation. You have two choices. You can either install the named packages using yum or apt as appropriate, and then use hp-setup (which is certainly what HP themselves would recommend) or you can try to do it through cups. You might find this link helpful for doing the latter, especially for the Mint installation.

tronayne · 09-24-2016, 10:52 AM

You may want to look at the Minimum System Requirements:

Quote:

HP Linux imaging and printing
Print, scan and fax drivers for Linux

What are the minimum system requirements?
Answer:

Linux kernel 2.4.19 and above (2.6.x recommended).
GNU software tools are required to build from source code. This includes the ANSI C compiler, ANSI C++ compiler and POSIX compliant environment.
libusb 0.1.8 or higher.
GPL Ghostscript 7.05 or higher.
Foomatic 3.0.2 or higher.
Qt 3.x or higher for UI toolkit.
PyQt 3.14 or higher for Qt wrapper for Python.
Python 2.2 or higher and python-devel (Python 2.3+ for fax support)
Reportlab (optional-provides fax cover page support)
CUPS 1.1.15 or higher and cups-devel.
libjpeg 6b or higher and libjpeg-devel.
net-snmp 5.0.9 or higher and net-snmp-devel for network support.
CUPS DDK 1.2 or higher for dynamic PPD support.

HPLIP has been tested on most major Linux distributions.
‹ Is HPLIP Licensed? up Scan resolution at 4800dpi ›

This is found at the HPLIP web page http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html

Hope this helps some.

business_kid · 09-28-2016, 11:38 AM

I've a hp wireless P1102 and it was a pain. I managed to get everything not to work, but I gave it a fixed IP in my router (= Always assign <this-MAC-address> to <this-IP>). Then I was able to get cups top pick it up. I always found a turd like quality about hplip. Mind you, install the python stuff and ignore the errors which are often not as fatal as they seem. HPLIP when last ran here gave half a dozen fatal looking errors but soldiered on and completed successfully.

tronayne · 09-28-2016, 11:51 AM

If you did a full install of Slackware everything you need to run hp-setup and, consequently, HPLIP -- completely integrated with CUPS (hp-setup does the CUPS entries for you). Probably a whole bunch of other stuff too.

The only thing you need to do is open CUPS and set the printer as the system default if that's what you want.

I have never had any problems with HPLIP through a series of printers (and printer, scanner, copier, fax and who knows what-all). It just works.

business_kid · 09-29-2016, 01:42 AM

I did a full install of slackwares but I use XFCE over KDE. Hplip invariably complains about the distro not being listed as supported. Silly stuff.

c0wb0y · 09-29-2016, 02:53 AM

I would say do it the manual way. Grab the PPD from openprinting or from hplip if it's possible. Then configure printer via Cups web interface. When asked for URI, put something like this:

ipp://<IP-ADDRESS>:631/ipp/port1

By the way, you can also do an nmap scan to check which port/s the printer is listening on.

You did not mention if SELinux is enabled, that can get in the way. But that's easy to fix.