Yup same issue, I would have to buy a cable to get my printer working.
And heaven forbid if you got a desktop on the second floor in your house, you would have to drag it downstairs and plug it in manually.
This is disgraceful, and if you want it fixed you have to wait three years.
42.1 is a leap… right off a god****ed cliff.
Into the pile of bad distros as far as I am concerned.
Arch can detect my printer, Fedora can detect my printer, so can Ubuntu, Mageia, Debian and every other distro but not openSUSE.
If you want your printer to work use one of them, I favor Manjaro as not only is it rolling but stable a mix of Tumbleweed and leap but uinlike both actually works with that magic device that makes paper come out.
Heck at this rate I dont even know if openSUSE knows what fire is.
Hi
Settle down with the profanity laced posts. This is a final warning! If you want help ask for it, no need for the rants in the help forums.
Now, I have no issues with my HP wireless printer, all I did was let it come up via dhcp and log into the web interface to configure (I wanted a fixed ip address, host name etc). Ensured cups service was started and enabled on Leap, installed hplip ran the setup, printer added.
Not sure what desktop you using but here on GNOME, systems running openSUSE Leap, openSUSE Tumbleweed, SLED 11 SP3, SLED 11 SP4, SLES 12, SLED 12, SLED 12 SP1 RCx, oh and Windows 10, osX 10.7.5 and well as iPhone, kindle and ASUS tablet to name a few all work fine with my HP wireless printer without one cable ever touching it…
Hi!
There is a HP Laserjet MFP M476dw at one of my customers connected by Wi-Fi. Works just fine. In YaST/hardware/printer I run HP setup and choose Connection Wizard"… —> “manual discovery” (fixed ip-address) and got a message that there is a plug-in available, DL it and everything is up and running.
The funny thing is that on both Beta and RC1 I never had problems with the the crash of HPLIP in the system tray after I connected to that printer. I had larger problems with my Ethernet network connected HP office G95(HPLIP system tray crashed).
I don’t know what desktop your using, my SLES system doesn’t even use one yet I was still able to add my wireless printer via hp-setup, does that help? I don’t thing so.
I will only repeat this once more, if you want help to get it working, then ask and explain your problem, step by step as to why you couldn’t set this up, else reply that you are not wanting help so I can close the thread!
Well most fixes I have read say I have to put in the ip address, which again I dont have to do under any other distro right now except openSUSE.
I got no error messages, nothing to tell me why my printer simply wont work.
I installed HPLIP, did every step I usually do but with no luck.
I even let myself cool down but nothing, the printer is simply not detected in openSUSE 42.1 wirelessly so I would have to buy a USB cable for it and I should not have to.
I just gave up on it, went back to Manjaro and wont look back.
When setting up a printer in a arch based distro is easier then something must be wrong.
Its not the printer, its this distro as I am able to detect the printer without issue in Manjaro, no cables, no fancy IP address nonsense
On Fri 13 Nov 2015 04:16:02 PM CST, MadmanRB wrote:
Well most fixes I have read say I have to put in the ip address, which
again I dont have to do under any other distro right now except
openSUSE.
I got no error messages, nothing to tell me why my printer simply wont
work.
I installed HPLIP, did every step I usually do but with no luck.
I even let myself cool down but nothing, the printer is simply not
detected in openSUSE 42.1 wirelessly so I would have to buy a USB cable
for it and I should not have to.
I just gave up on it, went back to Manjaro and wont look back.
When setting up a printer in a arch based distro is easier then
something must be wrong.
Its not the printer, its this distro as I am able to detect the printer
without issue in Manjaro, no cables, no fancy IP address nonsense
Hi
The one good thing, lots of choice with linux and derivatives, enjoy
your distribution of choice
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Well when you say ‘any other distro’ not sure how many you have tried. To get both scanning and printing to work wirelessly on one of my Debian boxes I had to do exactly that using the hp gui printing tool.
I am yet to set up my HP Photosmart on my openSUSE machine but will let all know how I go.
And as Malcolm said if you’ve found another distro that works better for you then go for it - the power of choice with Linux
Hats off again to openSUSE documentation - the whole process worked flawlessly and had the network printer set up in 5 minutes
One tip for setting up a network printer quickly is to obtain its IP address before you run the hp-steup app. Often a printer may show up as not discovered - type in the IP address and bam its there
The IP address can often be obtained from the screen of most new ‘smart’ printers
Anyway wish I could change the title of this thread or at least mark it as solved.
Continue to love openSUSE on my HP Spectre X360 - so much better than Windoze
