I am running SUSE 11.1 and I am trying to use the HP device manager, and once it finds my HP machine on my wireless network, it asks me for the Device user name and password???? I tried using my user name and password but doesn't work, and I don't have any idea of what they are looking for as I never had a device user name and password for the printer....help

Found answer, ran a check on the wireless setup on the printer and it showed me the user name and password.....didn't do any good though as still can not het hplip to work right.

how are you trying to setup this printer. Have you tried opening up a browser and going to http://localhost:631 ?

What model is the printer? What type of wireless connection? Sounds like you have two issues, is the wireless connection working properly, and is the correct printer driver loaded. Does the printer have a web-based set-up function? Does the printer have an ethernet connection as well, because if it does, I suggest you try setting it up with that first.

It may be you have to set the user permissions on the printer first before you can print to it. Look on the printer for somewhere to set who can print. There should be several ways to do this. If the HP manager can see the printer, then it may be the user/password setting it is asking for is not for the wireless connection but for the printer itself. If it has a setting to allow anyone on your network to print - for example by setting the IP address range, are a group - then try that first.

I've not set-up a printer with it's own wireless adapter, but I have done a number of HP printers with internal LAN cards, and several printers with external print servers. I use my laptop wireless on two networks with network printers. In every case I had to make sure the network connections worked properly first, but once that was done, getting the printer working was mostly easy, using YaST or Cups.

I gave my HP printer an fixed IP address. You can run the smbclient command to see how your computer sees the printer over the network. It was discovering the smbclient command that allowed me to initially network to a printer on a Windows box in the first place.

In case it helps, I'm currently using hplip with Ubuntu to connect to the printer.

This is how CUPS sees the printer through hplip: hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_L7600?ip=192.168.1.10