I just managed to get my HP Photosmart 8450 printer to work with HPLIP -- I can access the 4-in-1 card reader through /dev/sdc1 or similar. However, I've got some problems with HAL now. The contents of the computer:// thingy in Nautilus are:
TOSHIBA MK4004GAH Music Player: H300 (correctly comes up with iPod icon for music player)
H300: H300 (2) (this is supposed to be my inserted SD card. Same icon as "Filesystem". It changes to just H300 when unmounted)
HP Photosmart 8400 (This has what I presume is a card reader icon, with a little USB emblem over the top. It seems to point to /dev/sdc which is unmountable)
H300 is what my iRiver used to come up as, but now it comes up as the full TOSHIBA MK4004GAH Music Player: H300, which is the name of the hard disk used in it.
and then all the other stuff that isn't really relevant.
I'd really, really like it if someone could give me some hints as to how to stop HAL from being so stupid, even if it means forcing it. What I want is some way to change the name of the card-reader device, and to remove or make HP Photosmart 8400 useful.
Edit: Indeed, gnome-volume-manager / HAL seems to balls things up enough that I can't access the card through the HPLIP-supplied hp-photo or hp-toolbox anymore
