Hi dwelch91, After playing with my parallel port I was able to get a network card and get it installed. While I reran I got tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ python ./install.py --enable=pp-build HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8) HPLIP Installer ver. 5.1 Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details. Installer log saved in: hplip-install_Thu-27-Aug-2009_15:34:04.log / note: Defaults for each question are maked with a '*'. Press to accept the default. INSTALLATION MODE ----------------- Automatic mode will install the full HPLIP solution with the most common options. Custom mode allows you to choose installation options to fit specific requirements. Please choose the installation mode (a=automatic*, c=custom, q=quit) : a Initializing. Please wait... INTRODUCTION ------------ This installer will install HPLIP version 3.9.8 on your computer. Please close any running package management systems now (YaST, Adept, Synaptic, Up2date, etc). DISTRO/OS CONFIRMATION ---------------------- Distro appears to be Ubuntu 9.04. Is "Ubuntu 9.04" your correct distro/OS and version (y=yes*, n=no, q=quit) ? y ENTER ROOT/SUPERUSER PASSWORD ----------------------------- Please enter the root/superuser password: Password accepted INSTALLATION NOTES ------------------ Enable the universe/multiverse repositories. Also be sure you are using the Ubuntu "Main" Repositories. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu for more information. Disable the CD-ROM/DVD source if you do not have the Ubuntu installation media inserted in the drive. Please read the installation notes. Press to continue or 'q' to quit: RUNNING PRE-INSTALL COMMANDS ---------------------------- OK CHECKING FOR NETWORK CONNECTION ------------------------------- Network connection present. RUNNING PRE-PACKAGE COMMANDS ---------------------------- sudo dpkg --configure -a (Pre-depend step 1) sudo apt-get install --yes --force-yes -f (Pre-depend step 2) sudo aptitude update (Pre-depend step 3) OK DEPENDENCY AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION ---------------------------------- warning: A previous install of HPLIP is installed and/or running. sudo apt-get remove --assume-yes hplip hpijs foomatic-db-hpijs (Removing old HPLIP version) warning: HPLIP removal failed. The previous install may have been installed using a tarball or this installer. warning: Continuing to run installer - this installation should overwrite the previous one. RUNNING POST-PACKAGE COMMANDS ----------------------------- OK RE-CHECKING DEPENDENCIES ------------------------ OK PRE-BUILD COMMANDS ------------------ OK BUILD AND INSTALL ----------------- Running './configure --with-hpppddir=/usr/share/ppd/HP --libdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr --enable-qt4 --enable-doc-build --disable-cups-ppd-install --enable-pp-build --disable-foomatic-drv-install --disable-foomatic-ppd-install --disable-hpijs-install --enable-policykit --enable-cups-drv-install --enable-hpcups-install --enable-network-build --enable-dbus-build --enable-scan-build --enable-fax-build' Please wait, this may take several minutes... Command completed successfully. Running 'make clean' Please wait, this may take several minutes... Command completed successfully. Running 'make' Please wait, this may take several minutes... error: 'make' command failed with status code 2 tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ I also tried to remove previous installation, before I ran the above command: tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ sudo apt-get remove --assume-yes hplip hpijs foomatic-db-hpijs [sudo] password for tsp0001: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package hplip is not installed, so not removed Package hpijs is not installed, so not removed Package foomatic-db-hpijs is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ I can ping my printer now: tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ ping 192.168.1.102 PING 192.168.1.102 (192.168.1.102) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=1 ttl=60 time=6.95 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=2 ttl=60 time=2.33 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=3 ttl=60 time=2.29 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.102: icmp_seq=4 ttl=60 time=2.20 ms ^C --- 192.168.1.102 ping statistics --- 26 packets transmitted, 26 received, 0% packet loss, time 25033ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.139/2.508/6.950/0.897 ms tsp0001@desktop1:/media/Second Disk/LINUX-UBUNTU/hplip-3.9.8$ What I am doing wrong this time? Thanks for your help > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:43:07 +0000 > From: