On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 08:46 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 17:19 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 10:51 -0700, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > > > > Next, I'd like to be able to use the fax features. I never tried this in > > > F9 - I just assumed it would work since it found the fax features via > > > the printer setup automatically. But in F10 this also seems to be > > > non-existent. > > > > > > Can someone point me to the relevant packages or magic incantation to > > > make this stuff work? > > > > > > > I'm using OfficeJet J5783 on F9 and it works just fine. > > Two questions. > > A. Scanner: Did you install libsane-hpaio package? > > Yes I did. This wasn't all that was needed though. It turns out that the > same hplip driver package I installed to get SANE to recognize the > scanner also _does_ enable Fax support! > > For some reason (and to my surprise), the HP Fax driver didn't show up > as an option with the printer configuration utility > (system-config-printer) until _after_ I rebooted - which I did for > something completely unrelated. > > > B. Fax: Did you try using the HP Fax driver? (Within the > > system-config-printer) > > After it showed up - yes I did! Looks like everything is working now. > > So, the final solution: > 1) Install all of the HP oriented SANE tools (libsane-hpaio, etc.) > 2) Install the hplip package > 3) Reboot (??? Don't know why I should have to, but it worked...) > 4) Configure printer and fax as normal > > Cheers, > > Chris Good to hear the everything is working now. Though, when I connect my HP all-in-one printer, everything more-or-less worked out the box. No reboot was required... I wonder if it's a udev bug? - Gilboa -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
