HP Laserjet P1102w driver-plugin - SOLVED

[Jerry Lapham]

On Friday, November 11, 2011 01:56:53 AM O. Sinclair wrote:

> On 10/11/2011 22:23, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> > Am 09.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Jerry Lapham:
> >> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:50:06 AM Bruce Marshall wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 02:14:57 AM Jerry Lapham wrote:
> >>>> I have a new HP Laserjet P1102w and though it works fine with a USB
> >>>> cable, I'm having trouble getting it to work wireless. When I try to
> >>>> download and install the driver-plugin with HPLIP, I get "Plug-in
> >>>> install failed."
> >>>> 
> >>>> The alternative is to "select and install an existing local copy..."
> >>>> Since the printer works with USB, do I already have one? If so, where
> >>>> and what is the file name? If not, does anyone here have it?
> >>>> 
> >>>> -Jerry
> >>> 
> >>> You sure you need a driver???
> >> 
> >> Apparently. I have it set up as a USB printer and that works. It also
> >> appears as a printer option when I go to print something and it does
> >> work with
> >> the USB cable connected.
> >> 
> >> What I'm trying to do is set it up also as a wireless printer. (The
> >> P1102w
> >> does not have an ethernet interface.) It's when I try to install it as a
> >> wireless printer that I need the proprietary driver-plugin.
> >> 
> >> After several email exchanges with HP support in which they kept
> >> referring me
> >> to the web site with HPLIP (which I already have), they gave up and
> >> told me
> >> they only support Windows.
> >> 
> >> The question is: What does the driver-plugin do? It doesn't seem to
> >> enable
> >> the wireless connection; my router can see the printer as an attached
> >> device.
> >> But if it's just a print driver, I would think I already have it for
> >> the USB
> >> printer. But if so, where is it and what's its name?
> >> 
> >> -Jerry
> >> =============================================
> >> Jerry Lapham
> >> Monroe, OH 45050
> >> rjlapham at gmail.com
> >> =============================================
> >> Dyslexic atheists don't believe in Dog.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > according to this,
> > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/laserjet/hp_laserjet_professi
> > onal_p_1102w.html#note8
> > 
> > 
> > the printer is just supported with usb.
> 
> We have this printer in our office and the only way I can use it
> wireless is by first setting it up wireless on a Windows machine and
> then connect to that "network printer".

After the discussion here and further thought, I decided to"sudo hp-setup" in 
Konsole instead of trying to install the driver-plugin in the HPLIP gui.  That 
works!  I can print wireless from my desktop or laptop.

Nice printer for $75 at Staples.

	-Jerry
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Jerry Lapham
Monroe, OH  45050
rjlapham at gmail.com
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