I have an HP OfficeJet G55 printer that I am trying to attach to a P3-500 machine that I have just loaded FC2 onto. The problem I have is that it is not recognizing anything on the USB ports, much less the printer. I want to use it for both printing and scanning. Therefore, I have the following questions:

1. Can anyone tell me what the fstab entries should look like for a USB printer/scanner? I think this is part of the problem

2. I have the HPOJ driver already installed. (RPM said it was already installed.) How do you activate it to make it work. Other posts have indicated that you have to have hpoj running, but I don't know how to do that.

Thanks for your help on this.

Hi

I use a Lexmark Z602 USB printer whitout any problems; and i didn't modify my /etc/fstab in any way.

1. I don't know if a scanner needs it, but a printer doesn't need a modified fstab.

2. In order to use the driver provided by HP, you need to have your USB devices recognized.

Try to activate hotplug (that should work). You also need USB support in your kernel, either moduled or built-in. After that, configure your CUPS or LPRng.

-To check is your USB system is up:
user@xxx:~$ lsusb

-to check which modules are loaded:
user@xxx~$ lsmod

If you use KDE, once you have checked that USB is working in your machine and recognizes your printer, just type
user@xxx~$ kaddprinterwizard

It worked for me.

Good luck!