Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-09 Thread Tim Waugh
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 13:07 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote: > Not much from this, but I've run it from F12. Do you need results > from the live cd? No, the only extra thing you can test using the F-13 alpha/beta Live DVD is the automatic installation of printer drivers -- but that only works with pri

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-08 Thread Jim
Does anyone have this Printer working in Fedora 13 and does it have a Cups print driver for it ? I had to go to the Samsung site and download their Linux driver to get it to work in Fedora 12 It is also a Network printer connected to a Router and it works quite well, printing, scanning. Manuf

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-08 Thread Andrew Parker
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: >> "lpinfo -l -v" does not list the printers I use, but does list others, >> but with no device IDs: >> >> Device: uri = socket://172.26.33.191 >>         class = network >>         info = HP LaserJet 4050 Series >>         make-and-model = HP Laser

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-08 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Tim Waugh wrote: > ... > It might be that these printers support SNMP. You could try running the > snmp backend for them directly, like: > > /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp 172.26.33.191 > > ... I tried this on my network-connected printers. The only one that provide

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 20:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > And bugs filed about them have been ignored for two years, autoclosed and > deleted. Bugs with Device IDs for drivers we ship? I do try to track them quite carefully actually. I apologise if any have slipped through the cracks. Do you have exa

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-08 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:07 -0400, Andrew Parker wrote: > I followed [4], and got the following: > > Examining connected devices > No Device IDs available. That means there are no reliable Device IDs to be had here. This can happen if the only way the printer can be detected is with DNS-SD. I d

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Roger
On 04/07/2010 08:18 AM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi all, > as you probably know, Fedora 13 has a new automatic printer driver > installation feature[1], but for the automatic printer driver > installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are > missing for current printers, and som

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Roger
On 04/07/2010 08:18 AM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi all, > as you probably know, Fedora 13 has a new automatic printer driver > installation feature[1], but for the automatic printer driver > installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are > missing for current printers, and som

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 00:18:00 +0200 Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi all, > as you probably know, Fedora 13 has a new automatic printer driver > installation feature[1], but for the automatic printer driver > installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are > missing for current print

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Andrew Parker
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > Hi all, > as you probably know, Fedora 13 has a new automatic printer driver > installation feature[1], but for the automatic printer driver > installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are > missing for current printers

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Waugh
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 17:11 +0200, Chris Spike wrote: > Fetching driver list > ├── hp (HP Color LaserJet 2605dn): MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color > LaserJet 2605dn; > │ (No drivers) > └── usb (HP Color LaserJet 2605dn): MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP Color > LaserJet 2605dn;CMD:PJL,PML,POSTSCRIPT,PC

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Chris Spike
On 04/07/2010 12:18 AM, Gianluca Sforna wrote: [..] > Alternatively, you can > also determine missing IDs with your own installation of Fedora 11 and > 12 by following the steps outlined in Tim Waugh's blog[4]. su -c ./check-device-ids.py Examining connected devices Installing relevant drivers usi

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-07 Thread Gianluca Sforna
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > If we get insufficient data does that mean the printer doesn't report a > device id? it does not correctly report device-id or device-make-and-model. In this case you may want to report the output of: # lpinfo -l -v Thanks for trying!

Re: Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 00:18:00 +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > > Everyone can help fix this by following the instructions in the test > day page.[2] You don't need a Rawhide installation to provide useful > feedback, just a nightly live image[3] will do. Alternatively, you can > also determin

Printer IDs in Fedora 13: your help is neeeded!

2010-04-06 Thread Gianluca Sforna
Hi all, as you probably know, Fedora 13 has a new automatic printer driver installation feature[1], but for the automatic printer driver installation to work properly we need your Device IDs! Many IDs are missing for current printers, and some existing IDs are incorrect. Everyone can help fix this