MochaPenguin's Musings: 2015

Purchased one of these handy devices recently. These are suited for light activity like media consumption (watching movies, listening to music etc), typing up articles, blogs etc.

Bear in mind, they are not for gaming or programming.

Update BIOS

The device came with BIOS version 1.05.

The following updates were available at the Acer website. Picked the latest and greatest one. I would want to upgrade the system to Windows 10 when that is available. It needs to be verified that the device has driver support for Windows 10 before taking that plunge. I am not that keen on running Windows 8.1 drivers in compatibility made.

BIOS	Acer	Support Windows 10 BIOS capsule update.	1.18	3.9 MB	2015/10/23
BIOS	Acer	Update SMBIOS.	1.16	3.9 MB	2015/09/30
BIOS	Acer	Improved system performance	1.14	3.9 MB	2015/04/24
BIOS	Acer	Improve system performance	1.13	3.9 MB	2015/01/30
BIOS	Acer	BIOS	1.10	3.9 MB	2014/11/18
BIOS	Acer	Upgrade Intel MicroCode	1.06	3.9 MB	2014/10/15

Procedure:

Download the update file and run it from within the Windows environment. The patch will reboot the system, apply the update and reboot again.

Windows Update

Enable automatic Windows Update. Go and watch your favourite TV programme. My system showed 111 updates that needed to be applied.

TODO

Try recovery - Created a recovery USB drive (with a copy of the recovery partition) on an 8GB memory stick. Need to understand how to boot off it to restore the system to its original state.
Remove bloatware

Background

This is what I had to do to set up HP Photosmart All-in-One 2710 device on my laptop running Fedora 21

The 2710 device is already configured to be a wireless network printer on the network.

Procedure

Ensure the device is connected to the network and can be pinged.

Commands entered

[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ ping 192.168.0.200
PING 192.168.0.200 (192.168.0.200) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.0.200: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.200: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=14.8 ms

Ensure hplip is installed:

Commands entered

[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ sudo yum install hplip
[sudo] password for mochapenguin:
Loaded plugins: langpacks
adobe-linux-x86_64 | 951 B 00:00
google-chrome | 951 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
updates/21/x86_64/metalink | 26 kB 00:00
(1/4): google-chrome/primary | 1.9 kB 00:00
(2/4): adobe-linux-x86_64/primary | 1.2 kB 00:00
(3/4): rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/21/x86_64/primary_db | 48 kB 00:00
(4/4): rpmfusion-free-updates/21/x86_64/primary_db | 104 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-x86_64 2/2
google-chrome 3/3
Package hplip-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Install hplip-gui

Commands entered

[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ sudo yum install hplip-gui
Loaded plugins: langpacks
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package hplip-gui.x86_64 0:3.14.10-5.fc21 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: python-reportlab for package: hplip-gui-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: PyQt4 for package: hplip-gui-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package PyQt4.x86_64 0:4.11.3-1.fc21 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: sip-api(11) >= 11.1 for package: PyQt4-4.11.3-1.fc21.x86_64
---> Package python-reportlab.x86_64 0:3.1.8-4.fc21 will be installed
--> Running transaction check
---> Package sip.x86_64 0:4.16.5-1.fc21 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Installing:
hplip-gui x86_64 3.14.10-5.fc21 updates 1.5 M
Installing for dependencies:
PyQt4 x86_64 4.11.3-1.fc21 fedora 3.1 M
python-reportlab x86_64 3.1.8-4.fc21 fedora 1.2 M
sip x86_64 4.16.5-1.fc21 updates 125 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install 1 Package (+3 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 5.9 M
Installed size: 25 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
Downloading packages:
(1/4): PyQt4-4.11.3-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm | 3.1 MB 00:01
(2/4): python-reportlab-3.1.8-4.fc21.x86_64.rpm | 1.2 MB 00:00
(3/4): hplip-gui-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64.rpm | 1.5 MB 00:06
(4/4): sip-4.16.5-1.fc21.x86_64.rpm | 125 kB 00:00
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 974 kB/s | 5.9 MB 00:06
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Installing : python-reportlab-3.1.8-4.fc21.x86_64 1/4
Installing : sip-4.16.5-1.fc21.x86_64 2/4
Installing : PyQt4-4.11.3-1.fc21.x86_64 3/4
Installing : hplip-gui-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64 4/4
Verifying : sip-4.16.5-1.fc21.x86_64 1/4
Verifying : hplip-gui-3.14.10-5.fc21.x86_64 2/4
Verifying : PyQt4-4.11.3-1.fc21.x86_64 3/4
Verifying : python-reportlab-3.1.8-4.fc21.x86_64 4/4

Installed:
hplip-gui.x86_64 0:3.14.10-5.fc21

Dependency Installed:
PyQt4.x86_64 0:4.11.3-1.fc21 python-reportlab.x86_64 0:3.1.8-4.fc21
sip.x86_64 0:4.16.5-1.fc21

Complete!

Now it's time to run the main setup program hp-setup

Commands entered

[mochapenguin@dv6tqe ~]$ sudo hp-setup

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.14.10)
Printer/Fax Setup Utility ver. 9.0

Copyright (c) 2001-13 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.

This launches the following window: