wireless printer
DEbian 7.8.0 on 64bit laptop:
On my old Mepis12 (Wheezy) system there was a entry in system Systems under hardware, where you could define a printer. There doesn't appear be such on Debian 7.8.0, I need to configure a wireless connection to my HP6700. Itried "localhost:631" but this failed. |
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Fortunately I already had the latest hplip downloaded (3.14.10)
It said aspects of Debian 7.8.0 were not fully supported, and maybe I should try the Debiab 7.6 version. But proceeded. It made no changes to system settings, and localhost:631 still fails |
If browsing to 'localhost:631' fails, then the cupsd daemon is probably not running. Check that first.
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cupsd is running. After a reboot an HP icon appeared in the system tray,
but otherwise no change (no printer) |
The suggestion to make sure CUPS is running is a good one. Once you've made sure that it is running, remember that HPLIP will not discover your printer automatically.
This page gives a short tutorial on how to use hpsetup, which is part of the HPLIP package. |
Woe!
well, I'll have to wait a while on the wireless printer.
A massive power outage has trashed my desktop system - rescue disk used to run fsck on all partitions, but it still won't boot. Which is lucky for that the printer was the last thing I needed to get working. So my hand is forced, and I'm installing debian 7.8.0 on my HP desktop system. Fortunately cron did a full backup of /home at 1am, so I may have lost a few emails, but otherwise the laptop is now the main system. I still have a couple of things to do (not on the laptop, but on the desktop) skype and vbox, and I still need to check flashplayer - they seem to change it rather often. Backups now running from my laptop. Thanks for all the help, your response times are fantastic! |
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