[SOLVED] How to connect to wireless HP printer

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aurlaent
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Re: How to connect to wireless printer

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Excellent, definite progress.
More things are coming out of the dark corners of my brain.
the HP tools like hp-setup may need your user to be a member of the sys group.
Salix has a lovely tool for managing such things (it's under system in my KDE menu, should be similar for XFCE)

Alternatively, now that hp-setup has found the bits and pieces, you can probably set up the printer directly in CUPS, using the hp:/ line and the .ppd file.
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Re: How to connect to wireless printer

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aurlaent wrote:the HP tools like hp-setup may need your user to be a member of the sys group.
That was the missing info. I had already checked to make sure the user had appropriate permissions, but wrongly assumed the printer was controlled by either "plugdev" or "scanner". Thank you *very* much for your commitment to this post and helping see the problem through. As a reward, here is a link to the gallery I am running, (where the printer is). Enjoy!

http://www.pecoff.com/

:mrgreen:
There are no stupid questions.
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