Hello, On Dec 28 12:02 Mikael Eriksson wrote (shortened): > Photosmart C5180 and connected it with an ethernet cable to my > home-network. ... > At first I wasn't able to scan, Koka didn't find any scanner.
No frontend can communicate with a scanner when there is no SANE backend (i.e. no SANE driver) activated. For general info see for example http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 > Since I use openSUSE 10.2 I went to yast - add scanner but no > scanner was found automatically. The help text in YaST tells you that only local connected scanners (actually only USB and SCSI scanners) can be autodetected and that HP all-in-one devices are not autodetected at all. The reason is that YaST runs sane-find-scanner for autodetection. > I had to add it manually and select the correct driver, when > that was done yast found my device at the network and scanning > now works great! ... > In openSUSE 10.2 you first have to activate and start the hplip > service in Yast - System - Edit runlevels The latter is not necessary. The YaST scanner setup tool also activates and starts the hplip service when the "hpaio" backend is set up. > I use hplip 1.6.10 which is shipped with > openSUSE 10.2, even though it was installed automatically during > installation the service is not activated by default. Be glad that we don't start any service by default which is installed by whatever package - or do you really want to have any available service running automatically? As a matter of principle, we prefer not to start any service that is not really required by the user. I.e. even if we autodetect hardware for which a particular service might be useful, we won't start the service without any user interaction (e.g. the user has to set up the hardware). For example a plain printer can be used with the HPIJS driver but without the hplip service, see http://hplip.sourceforge.net/tech_docs/overview.html > Then I would like to know what will happen sooner or later when > my DHCP server decides to assign the device another ip-adress? I assume that at least printing will no longer work if the usual CUPS DeviceURI like hp:/net/Photosmart_C5180?ip=192.168.100.200 is used because the IP is fixed in the DeviceURI, for general info about CUPS see for example http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell Note that the CUPS backend (do not confuse with a SANE backend) may disable the print queue if the IP does no longer exist. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list HPLIP-Help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
