Printing In Linux I cant seen to find the port, got the driver

[FirefoxRocks 0]

I have tried installing this through CUPS several times but it doesn't seem to detect the printer. Could someone give me exact instructions to installing this printer so that I don't have to use Windows when I have to print something?

 

I am using a Debian-based Linux distribution, Ubuntu 7.04 to be exact. I have a HP Deskjet 656C, and I have obtained a driver from the OpenPrinting database. Some additional information could be found here: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ .

 

So I have followed the instructions of http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ to try to install my downloaded PPD file. It took me a while to figure out that /home/FirefoxRocks/ was my own directory similar to C:\Documents and Settings\FirefoxRocks\

 

I went into the Terminal as administrator, and typed in commands to download appropriate packages and whatnot. It didn't work.

The problem with the Add Printer Wizard is that it doesn't detect the USB port as a printer port. How can I get it to do that?

 

If you give me some instructions to install this driver then give me exact commands to type into the terminal.

 

Thanks.

[polarysekt 0]

Real Quick - does your system detect the USB??

[dserban 0]

Interesting, this database http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
says USB=Yes for that particular printer model.
Check out "Should you install the latest HPLIP?" at:
http://hplipopensource.com/

[Sten 0]

linux wont detect my printer either (canon image class mpc190), it can detect like every canon except for the multiclass range, its really annoying

[polarysekt 0]

humorously enough... i had the reverse problem... my printer/server actually works really well through CUPS, but fails miserably on my Windows system...