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11-07-2008, 11:51 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mint 20.3 MATE, Android, Windows 10, MX Linux and Mint 21.1 MATE
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Driver Loader, Anyone Have Any Experience?
Hi, does anyone here have any experience installing and using driver loader? Such as with an all in one HP printer?
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11-07-2008, 12:46 PM
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Gentoo support team
Registered: May 2008
Location: Lucena, Córdoba (Spain)
Distribution: Gentoo
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What's "Driver Loader"?
If it's some kind of Windows toy, then you can assume that it will not work. There's absolutely no chance that a native Windows tool to manage drivers will work even if you try it on wine. In first place wine doesn't support and will never support Windows drivers, because in first place it doesn't need to either, it's not a virtual machine.
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11-07-2008, 01:06 PM
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Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
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Why not just use the printer drivers that HP has provided for your All-in-One ?
Start by looking up your printer in the database.. http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi
Odds are it will use the hpijs Driver which is part of HPLIP - HP Linux Imaging and Printing : Print, Scan and Fax Drivers for Linux
I only ever tried 'LINUXANTs' driver loader' once, a long time ago, with a wireless network card. worked OK for that.. but I didn't feel like paying for Driver Loader and spent my cash on a supported wireless card instead.
Last edited by farslayer; 11-07-2008 at 01:08 PM.
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11-07-2008, 09:10 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Australia
Distribution: Mint 20.3 MATE, Android, Windows 10, MX Linux and Mint 21.1 MATE
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I have tried HP LIP, but it is not as good as the authentic HP software.
Driver Loader is like WINE for windows drivers.
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