From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The same as bugs 162506 176493 176709. Normally I would not report this, but saw that Tim asked someone else who reported a problem to submit a separate bug report. I get: [root@localhost ~]# printconf-gui & [1] 2986 [root@localhost ~]# No match for USB device: mfr "HP" model "Deskjet 5900 series" desc "5940" cmdset "MLC,PCL,PML,DW-PCL,DESKJET,DYN" Please report this message in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Choose 'foomatic' as the component. I just select HP 990c, and it seems to work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): foomatic-3.0.2-19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.as root, enter the command in the description above. 2.if the message doesn't appear in a minute or less, try to add a printer or edit the 5940. 3. Actual Results: see the extract in the description. Expected Results: Nothing. This message doesn't prevent adding or editing. But you do have to name some other model of printer whose ppd is close enough to the one you really have to do what you want to. Additional info: I downloaded a ppd for the hp5940. Is there some way foomatic could look for something like that, ask the user if it's ok to use it, and modify the list to refer to it? There will be new printers al the time. There should be a way to generate ppds automatically, or atleast a way for the user to write one and try it at our own risk.
Thanks -- this is different from the other bugs because it is a different printer model. We need to collect those 'Device ID' strings in order for that model to be automatically detected in future. I've added the Device ID strings from your report into the linuxprinting database. In the meantime, you can use 'Actions->Import PPD...' from the menu to use the PPD you have downloaded.