New Install /w Misc. problems

[david walcroft]

Lloyd Hayes wrote:
> I'll start with the Xsane problems. Running FC2 on an older Gateway 
> laptop, P1, 233 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 6 GB Hard drive.
> In addition to the above hardware, I have a HP PSC-1210 (All-in-one 
> Scanner/Printer), 40 GB USB v2.0 Hard drive (Buslink), USB v2.0 52X 
> CD-Burner/DVD Player, PCMCIA USB v2.0 hub, 2 PCMCIA 802.11b cards 
> (Netware and a generic one which was free), PCMCIA US Robotics 802.11g 
> card, Nikon camera w/usb connector, various other media usb connectors.
> 
> Background: For the last few months, in my spare time, I've been using 
> my backup computer to play around with putting FreeBSD 5.2.1, Slackware 
> 10.0, Red Hat 9, Debian "Sarge", and now I am back to putting Fedora 
> Core 2 on it for the 2nd time. /(Fedora Core 1 simply refused to install 
> on this computer.)/ At this point, Red Hat 9 is my favorite system and 
> seems to work best, but has outdated drivers and doesn't seem to be 
> supported any more. Fedora has the current drivers and it is supported, 
> and it is only a small step down from Red Hat.
> 
> 1.) I'll hit the Wi-Fi cards 1st. I travel all of the time and hook 
> exclusively into the Internet by WiFi systems across the country.  I use 
> my US Robotics "g" card most of the time since most systems are running 
> at 5.4 MB/sec, but a few are only running at 2.2 MB/sec or "b" speeds. 
> So far none of my cards has been supported by a UNIX type system. I'm 
> curious if anything is being done in that area?
> 
> 2.) HP PSC-1210 printer/scanner. It prints out fine using the cups 
> drivers. But Xsane is not showing up in Gnome, except in Gimp. When I 
> run Sane under Gimp, it searches for the scanner and says that there is 
> no scanner connected. After the search, it only gives me the option of 
> closing the search program. I don't know of a way to manually configure it.

I use the PSC-2110 and this is how I get it set up

First the required rpms,these are the latest on FC2

hpijs-1.6-1
libsane-hpoj-0.91-7
hpoj-0.91-7

Then run 'ptal-init setup' as root and that "should" be that.

     david