I managed to get my Samsung SCX-4200 MFP running…. (see previous post) The key was to gksudo nautilus to change permissions (press Alt-F2 and type gksudo nautilus), so I could uninstall the Samsung driver. Then I re-installed it over splix2 (see here) The scanner was now producing root-free scans, but the printer didn’t work. At [...]
I thought I had it sussed. (see SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last) It was going fine under Hardy, but then I did a clean install back in the winter and didn’t bother reinstalling the printer as I was sick for quite a while and then had a loan of a [...]
This must be my lucky day. I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch. All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared. It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. [...]
I’m bumping this again for my own convenience and hopefully someone else who needs it will find it. [update: in case you haven't done this before and are wondering where is cdroot - when you extract the .tar.gz it extracts to a folder called cdroot.] [Ubuntu OS Installation] 1. Download and extract the driver 2. [...]