HP Photosmart 1215 Printer and Card Reader

The Printer driver for your Photosmart 1215 is already in this distro. They're not in order. So, you may have missed it.

You'll need to add it via KControl and you'll need to select the printer with the underscore characters in it before going to the rest of the screens. See this post for details and screen prints (just substitute your printer for the one being shown in the screens, and you'll find that the driver for it is in the list of drivers already in SimplyMEPIS 6.0)

http://www.mepis.org/node/11444

As for the card reader, I don't know if it works or not. I used to have an HP Photosmart 1215. But, I never used it with Linux.

With Windows, the card reader was terribly slow. So, you're probably better off buying a USB 2.0 Card reader anyway. You can pick up a dedicated USB 2.0 multi-card reader for around $10 or so.

Jim C.

You may find some of the screen shots here:
http://www.gabston-howell.org/pnc/p-n-c.help.inst-hpps7350.shtml
to be of assistance.

The HP card reader hardware does not work, is horribly slow under windoze, and is basically junk.

Get a SanDisk reader instead.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-SDDR-88-A15-Hi-speed-Reader-Package/dp/B0000AKVHF/
You plug it in, and it simply works.

My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.

Thank you to both of you for your replies. I installed the correct driver and all appears to be working perfectly.

Shame about the Card Reader on the printer, but you were right it is very very slow. I will go out and get a proper card reader!

As a newbie to Linux and the Mepis Forum, I think this is great the amount of help you get here. Looking through some of the posts on here, I have found so much usefull information. Now I am off in search of some NTFS help.

Thank you again for your help.

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Mepis 6.0 / Microsoft Windows XP x64 Professional
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice
1GB Ram

Well, then
http://www.mepis.org/node/10750
and
http://www.mepis.org/node/10787
may be just what you're looking for.

My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.

I will certainly try this tonight.

I found a program that runs in the taskbar called KwikDisk (kDiskFree)which appears to work well, and allows me to read/write to my NTFS partitions. The problem is that my music collection is on my NTFS partition as I use Windows and Linux 50/50 at the moment. I use Amarok to hold my music collection in Linux, but if I forget to connect to my NTFS drive (SDB1) before opening Amarok, my entire collection disappears and I have to re-build it again, as if clears out dead links or something.

So what I am after is a permanently mounted NTFS partition.

Also is KwikDisk (kDiskFree) safe to use?

PS. Sorry if my Linux Terminology is not quite right, just that I am new to all this and trying to find my feet.
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Living in the UK
Mepis 6.0 / Microsoft Windows XP x64 Professional
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice
1GB Ram

Just because you can allow read/write access to an NTFS partition, doesn't mean that you should.

If you're not using NTFS-3G (or something similar like Captive NTFS), you're probably going to corrupt the NTFS partition if you write to it.

If you've already been writing to it, there is a chance that it's already corrupted. Make sure to read the threads that EnigmaOne posted links to. The first one has a link to a forum thread in the Ubuntu forums explaining how to install NTFS-3G.

Jim C.

Thank you for your comments again, I havent had a chance to sit at the PC yet and try this but will certainly try tonight.

I was just thinking that I really know nothing of Linux and a month ago thought I would try a few distros, picked Mepis as my favourite and installed it.

I then wanted to play some music, and realised i couldn't access it. I found this little KwikDisk icon in the system tray and realised I could access my NTFS data. I also started saving things to my NTFS partition this way to. I guess luckily I havent damaged anything, but for a beginner I could have done some damage. Why would this program allow me to read and write data without any warning?

If this is so fundamentally dangerous, should it not display a warning before alowing me to mount a NTFS partition?

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Living in the UK
Mepis 6.0 / Microsoft Windows XP x64 Professional
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice
1GB Ram

Permissions do not allow write access to an NTFS partition by default.

So, if you are saving to your NTFS partition, you probably modified the permissions for write access.

Jim C.

Appologies Jim,

I just realised I have been writing files to my FAT32 partition and not to NTFS.

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Living in the UK
Mepis 6.0 / Microsoft Windows XP x64 Professional
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice
1GB Ram

Heck.. I'm a Linux newbie myself. I barely know enough about Linux to be dangerous.

I just hang out in the forums here a lot hoping to learn something.

But, figuring out a way to share files between XP and Linux is one of the things I've been looking into.

So, I have noticed the posts about Captive NTFS (which uses Microsoft's NTFS file driver) and NTFS-3G (the preferred way of writing to an NTFS partition from user experience with it so far).

Your way of doing it (using a FAT32 partition to share data) is probably the safest way.

Jim C.