Hello again, Ralph.
I glanced at the manual and it seems the device is capable of WiFi Direct. With a wireless adaptor on a computer, it can be contacted directly. No wireless or ethernet networking required. This is non-basement, modern technology. You might try it sometime.It seems I won't be installing this M130fn as a wireless printer. It apparently doesn't have the capability that its stable-mates, the M130nw and M130fw, have.
And, as I have no access to the cable modem/router, I won't be installing it via ethernet either.
You device is capable of AirPrint. My experience is that such devices also provide IPP-over-USB. Yours is the first I have come across that does not seem to use this protocol. Setting up the ipp-usb package should have been a doddle. Such is life!
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I thought my little network was complicated. You don't use carrier pigeons for postal deliveries in you part of the world, do youSince you have shown interest in coal-fired networking, let me expand on just how mine works:
The computer in the basement/crawl-space is connected to the cable modem via ethernet. That's network #1: Shaw.ca to the XP box.
The RG-58 cable originates at my sister-in-law's computer, upstairs, where it has a 50-ohm terminator. The cable descends to the basement where it connects to a second NIC (D-Link DE-528ct) via a T-connector at the XP box. It then snakes 100 feet over to my location (travel trailer). Then on another 50 feet to the garage workbench where there are a couple more T-connectors (I can use either or both of them for internet access on computers I'm tinkering with). Then, makes its 50 foot trip back to the trailer where it has yet another spare Tee, and connects to my XP computer and, finally, to this my main computer, where it is terminated with a 50-ohm terminator. This is network #2.
The computer in the basement/crawl-space is simply the router between Shaw.ca and all these other boxes. It has no wireless capability. Nor has the cable modem any longer - "bridging" took care of that. Internet Connection Sharing takes care of doling out IP addresses to all computers on the line.
The "advantage" of using 10Base2 is that a single cable comprises the whole network. And, each segment of it can be up to 185 meters long. As many as 30 "drops" for computer connection can be accommodated. You can do the math to see how many separate ethernet cables would have had to been run to accomplish the same thing as is done with this single cable. Kinda elegant dontcha think? It's been working for years. I have, of course, bought up every D-Link DE-528ct NIC in existence for future "projects". I don't know what I'll do when I encounter a mobo without a PCI slot.
.All of HPLIP (apart from the plugins) is under a free licence.My understanding is that the HPLIP software is HP's proprietary stuff. Is this correct?
You have met a bug.And, how does it make its way from HP to Linux Mint's repository? And, could that transfer have resulted in this particular file's being "altered" or "corrupted", rendering it unusable?
So, at this juncture, it remains for me to wait until the next iteration of Linux Mint sees a newer version of HPLIP in the repository. It's not a big deal for me to scan to my V19.3 installation on the other HDD.
Sooner than you think. I dislike loose ends. Lets do HPLIP.I'd like to thank you for all the time and effort you've put into helping me. It's hard for me to ask for help. I know I shouldn't be afraid to do so. Maybe it comes from 60+ years of fixing stuff for other people, thinking that I should be able to figure out EVERYTHING. Not so. Thanks for extending your hand to me. You really know your way around Linux. We'll meet again.
Download the plugin for your version of HPLIP from
https://www.openprinting.org/download/p ... P/plugins/
and install it (substituting, of course) with
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sudo sh DOWNLOADED_PLUGINAlso give the output of
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lpstat -t
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