So I have tumbleweed 64bit running along the side of linux mint 17.2 and windows 10 and I am using the latest snapshot but for some confounded reason my printer will not connect to openSUSE. It works with 13.2 but not with tumbleweed, 13.2 picks it up straight off but not tumbleweed even with the HP drivers installed.
I have no idea why this doesnt work, but its annoying that once again I may have to buy a cord (even though it should work wirelessly) for openSUSE to recognize my printer.
Other distrtos have no issue with this printer as its mostly linux friendly, its not there in debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Mageia, Manjaro, Fedora or even arch which not so long ago had a similar issue.
Its a HP Envy 4500, I have every package needed for printing enabled but for some dumb reason openSUSE tumbleweed cannot recognize my printer.
That is what I sadly suspect unfortunately if I can’t get my printer working then openSUSE tumbleweed is of no use to me. oh well guess its back to Manjaro if I want a rolling distribution
Pity as openSUSE is more stable in other areas even with tumbleweed enabled.
I could use 13.2 again and enable tumbleweed from there but it’s more trouble than it’s worth if you ask me if it winds up making my printer not work
That is what I suspect, unfortunately that means I won’t be using openSUSE at all anymore as without 32 bit support for leap i probably won’t be able to use wine or have pipelighlight work in which I need to have web sites like Amazon and Hulu to work or use any of my emulators as most are 32 bit only. OpenSUSE has become a really terrible Distro shame it has fallen so deep into the pits of bad decisions and incompatibility oh well back to Manjaro and mint
Leap will not drop support for 32bit software, it just will not run on 32bit hardware, as it looks now.
Although there may be a port for 32bit as well, only time will tell…
That said, what’s your actual problem with your HP printer in Tumbleweed?
I.e. what did you do, what error messages did you get?
Tumbleweed should have the latest hplip, or you can always install the latest one from the Printing repo.
Shouldn’t be much different from any released openSUSE version…
I’m getting no error messages just the printer not working, I turn the printer on and nothing happens when I tried to install the printer via the GUI it doesn’t seem to connect it doesn’t seem to respond and is not detected by openSUSE. And as I mentioned I did install HPLIP so there should be nothing stopping my printer from working but here it is not working with no explanation of why it would help if I actually did get a error message but nothing it simply doesn’t work. It should work wirelessly as this is a wireless printer and like I said other distributions seem to pick it up instantly without any cables or cords. I had the exact same issue with openSUSE 13.1 where I need to have a cable to hook up my printer which is ridiculous considering I can hook this up wirelessly with Ubuntu Linux Mint Debian fedora arch and other such distributions. The fact is I cannot trace the source of the error and have no idea where the heck it’s coming from all I can say is the printer simply doesn’t work with openSUSE but can work and other distributions
And how would you expect it to be automatically detected then?
Again, please tell the exact steps you took.
With your information (basically: it doesn’t work, while it worked with other distributions) it isn’t really possible to help you.
I take it that the wireless network is working otherwise, right?
Have you tried via the standard CUPS interface, i.e. http://localhost:631 in your browser?
Have you tried to disable the SUSE firewall, to rule out problems there?
Although I have to say that I have no experience with wireless printers…
Other people might be able to help though.
Look if there’s some sort of command-line solution to this or anything like that I would like to know so that I can have it in my records of what to do but so far nothing in the GUI seems implicate any errors. I’m highly suspecting that this is a cups issue as that’s what arch had a few months ago as for some reason HP drivers did not work with cups in arch and it’s possible that the same issue is happening with tumbleweed so maybe I should actually put this labeled as a bug and take it to the bug hunters team it’s hard to determine as I am seeing no real issues upfront so it’s possible that there something wrong going on behind the scene somewhere and I can’t pinpoint where which is very annoying especially when you have people wanting to know if you have any error messages when you can’t say you have any whatsoever so makes the process of diagnosing the issue with very hard but as it stands yeah sadly I’m going to go back to Manjaro as my third operating system for now and possibly run openSUSE as a fourth OS which is very annoying
Hi
When you say GUI, is that YaST or hp-setup? If YaST use hp-setup
Switch to root user {su -}
Ensure cups service is running and no errors;
systemctl status cups
systemctl start cups
systemctl status cups
In the status command, check it’s enabled, if not;
systemctl enable cups
Then run hp-setup;
CLI method
hp-setup -i <ip address of printer or friendly name>
GUI Method
hp-setup <ip address of printer or friendly name> {and use manual discovery}
@MadmanRB: follow malcolmlewis’ instructions, they’re exactly what I did, and here’s the result:
# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
no system default destination
device for HP: hp:/net/ENVY_4500_series?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
HP accepting requests since vr 04 sep 2015 23:38:37 CEST
printer HP is idle. enabled since vr 04 sep 2015 23:38:37 CEST
