Ethernet printer using Hplip

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G'day folks, I am having trouble getting hplip to find my ethernet printer (printer is attached to wireless router). I am using Ubuntu Intrepid, on a wireless laptop. Any ideas?

My tower pc which is attached via cable to the router has no problems picking up the printer (same os)

Linux does not yet support network printing, at least to my knowledge. I just plug in the USB cable to my printer whenever I need to print something.

Wait a couple kernel versions, and maybe Linux will get this. The issue is that the developers are having to reverse-engineer everything, and they have other things to worry about. But, if they managed to make wifi easier, I'm sure network printing is coming soon to a distro near you.

As an aside, am I the only who's been finding Compiz in Ubuntu really buggy? If I try to alt-tab and I have any windows minimized, my computer freezes and needs a hard reboot.

Erm... if I read DentArthurDent right, the desktop, connected via Ethernet to the router, can use the printer, which is also connected via Ethernet to the router, but the laptop, connected via WiFi to the router, can't see it.

It sounds like a configuration problem in the router, whereby it doesn't mind Ethernet/Ethernet routings, but is less happy with WiFi/Ethernet.


Maybe you are the only one.

Two things - do you know that Ctrl/Alt/Backspace will restart X? and also that Ctrl/Alt/F1..6 (or thereabouts) get you to console logins? (where you can kill anything that is misbehaving.)

I must have read it wrong then.


Yeah, that doesn't work when this happens... it just completely freezes, ctrl/alt/backspace does nothing.

Yep but only in linux, XP is fine

Perhaps you don't have your printer set up properly. Go to localhost:631 in your browser, it is the CUPS admin page. Make sure everything is set up properly.

edit: do you have the proper drivers for your printer? Orwell is incorrect, you can get your printer to work in a network in linux. I have my printer running in a network. What kind of printer do you have?

Maybe you should stop using compiz

Blasphemy. I need my spinning desktop cube.

Fixed it. The printer had also stopped working in XP. I set the IP address manually and that got XP going, booted back into Ubuntu and hey presto Hplip worked flawlessly. So looks like Lau you were smack on the money, must have been the router

Double blasphemy! I also need my spinning cube (and where did that screensaver go?), plus I would die if I didn't have my advanced zoom (and would suffer severe withdrawal symptoms if my windows did not occasionally fold themselves up and fly away).

(And how would the windows continue to work, without the gearwheels inside?)