From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040404 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I get some weird messages when trying to add a LaserJet 4300 via JetDirect. Also, the printer configuration GUI selects "Generic PostScript" in this case. However, the messages make it sound like it may be possible to automatically choose "LaserJet 4300". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-0.6.98-1 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "printconf-gui" from a terminal, as root. 2. Try to set up a HP LaserJet 4300 via JetDirect. 3. Look at the type of printer chosen by default, as well as the messages in the terminal. Actual Results: "Generic PostScript" is chosen, and these messages appear in the terminal: ---begin quote--- No IEEE 1284 match: {'model': 'hp LaserJet 4300', 'cmdset': 'PJL,MLC,POSTSCRIPT,PJL,PCLXL,PCL', 'manufacturer': 'Hewlett-Packard'} No SNMP match: 'hp LaserJet 4300' No SNMP match: 'Hewlett-Packard Dynamic RAM Disk' ---end quote--- Expected Results: I'm not completely sure, to be honest. However, since HP "LaserJet 4300" is offered as an option in the GUI, I guess I'm expecting that to be chosen automatically in this case. Additional info: I don't know for sure that there's actually a bug here, but I figure it is worth reporting, just in case. Also, I don't know absolutely for sure which component is at fault; this is just my best guess.
I just set up a LaserJet 2100 over JetDirect, and that was automatically detected as a LaserJet 2100 without the terminal messages, so I'm more inclined now to think that the behavior with the 4300 is in fact a bug.
Yes, this is indeed what I made it print out that message for -- to get feedback exactly like this. I could put in a message like 'please report to bugzilla' to make it more obvious I guess. Thank you very much for this report. I've built foomatic-3.0.1-5 in Fedora development which should pick up the printer correctly.