Bug 726018

Summary:	Does not detect HP OfficeJet T65 printer connected by parallel port
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Roland Hughes <roland>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsmeix
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Roland Hughes 2011-10-24 00:27:53 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1

Neither detects nor installs HP OfficeJet T65 printer during installation.  Does not install HP software and drivers.  Printer was turned on and connected via parallel port.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.hook up HP OfficeJet T65 printer to computer via parallel port and turn on
2. run OpenSuSE 12.1 RC 1 install
3. No HP drivers or detection
Actual Results:  
no HP drivers or detection

Expected Results:  
expected T65 to show up instantly in cups

Comment 1 Roland Hughes 2011-10-24 17:24:04 UTC

If I connect the printer via a USB-Parallel cable, the Cups Web interface can actually find and configure the printer.  The HP software cannot.

Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2011-10-25 08:41:52 UTC

The parallel port issue is likely a duplicate of bug #673845

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 673845 ***