Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2006, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> When connected via USB to a Windows XP system access to the photo cards
>> is fine.
> 
> Probably if you connect directly via USB to Linux it will also work very
> well (as the photo card bridge is USB mass-storage compliant).

Well, if my circumstances would allow to have the printer next to the
Linux system it would have been connected to it via the USB from the start.

>> I've attached a tcpdump of the transaction.  Maybe someone can tell me
>> what is wrong?
> 
> No idea, but *even* if it works, it will be extremely slow and unusable for
> large photo cards.  I do not even know why HPLIP tries to supports this, the
> hardware/firmware just is not up to the job.  Mind you, over USB it *is*
> good enough and works very well, it is a problem with the way it was
> implemented over TCP/IP.

I can deal with slow.  As it turns out, I would have to transfer it from
the printer to an XP system via USB and then over wireless to the Linux
box.  I suppose I could just samba mount the XP drives and work that way.

Still, it would be nice to get it working.


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