Re: SOLVED:Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-05-11 18:24:39 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:58:56PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-05-11 12:08:01 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > Aha Got it, geany evince okular etc can now print from bpi54! Removing > > > the Listen localhost:631 directive from

Re: SOLVED:Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:58:56PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-05-11 12:08:01 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Aha Got it, geany evince okular etc can now print from bpi54! Removing > > the Listen localhost:631 directive from /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and inserting a > > > > Listen

Re: SOLVED:Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2023-05-11 12:08:01 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Aha Got it, geany evince okular etc can now print from bpi54! Removing > the Listen localhost:631 directive from /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and inserting a > > Listen 192.168.xx.yy:631 > > made the localhost:631/printers on this machine show up

Re: SOLVED:Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 May 2023 at 12:08:01 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/11/23 07:07, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 May 2023 at 16:02:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: > > > > On Wed 10 May 2023 at 13:18:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 5/10/23 11:29,

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread gene heskett
On 5/11/23 07:09, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 15:51:53 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: [...] After appreciating that bpi51 has libnss-mdns installed, you might discard any assumption that nsswitch.conf on bpi54 has the same contents. I don't believe any

SOLVED:Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-11 Thread gene heskett
On 5/11/23 07:07, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 16:02:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 13:18:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 11:29, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 08:17,

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: > > A link would be ever so useful. > > send browser to cups.org, click help, in right pane, click "printer > sharing", scroll down about a screenfull to Automatic using IPP So the answer to Brian's question is

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread gene heskett
On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 13:18:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 11:29, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: [...] Is /etc/cups/client,conf really, really needed? That is the first

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread gene heskett
On 5/10/23 14:22, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 13:18:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 11:29, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: [...] Is /etc/cups/client,conf really, really needed? That is the first

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 May 2023 at 13:18:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/10/23 11:29, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: > > > [...] > > Is /etc/cups/client,conf really, really needed? > > > That is the first thing cups

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread gene heskett
On 5/10/23 11:29, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: [...] Your nsswitch.conf line implies libnss-mymacines and libnss-mymhostname are used. They have man pages to help you decide what parts they play on bpi54. They were

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 May 2023 at 10:04:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: [...] > > Your nsswitch.conf line implies libnss-mymacines and libnss-mymhostname are > > used. > > They have man pages to help you decide what parts they play on bpi54. > > They were not installed, and

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 10:04:47AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: [...] > > Your nsswitch.conf line implies libnss-mymacines and libnss-mymhostname are > > used. > > They have man pages to help you decide what parts they play on bpi54. > > They were not installed,

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread gene heskett
On 5/10/23 08:17, Brian wrote: On Tue 09 May 2023 at 16:49:22 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/9/23 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 04:06:14AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I think you have said resolv.conf Search directive doesn't work but nsswitch.conf was mentioned and

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-10 Thread Brian
On Tue 09 May 2023 at 16:49:22 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/9/23 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 04:06:14AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > I think you have said resolv.conf Search directive doesn't work but > > > nsswitch.conf was mentioned and there is a diff

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-09 Thread gene heskett
On 5/9/23 07:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 04:06:14AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I think you have said resolv.conf Search directive doesn't work but nsswitch.conf was mentioned and there is a diff between this machine and one of the arms. So what do I put in nsswitch.conf to

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 04:06:14AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > I think you have said resolv.conf Search directive doesn't work but > nsswitch.conf was mentioned and there is a diff between this machine and one > of the arms. So what do I put in nsswitch.conf to make cups search the hosts > file

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-09 Thread gene heskett
On 5/8/23 07:49, Brian wrote: On Mon 08 May 2023 at 00:23:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: Brian, I found the secret sauce. Armed with the knowledge that Mike had moved, I found his new site, and found the answer in 5 minutes under the "printer sharing" link. Something is broken when using a

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-08 Thread gene heskett
On 5/8/23 16:57, gene heskett wrote: On 5/8/23 07:49, Brian wrote: On Mon 08 May 2023 at 00:23:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/7/23 12:48, Brian wrote: [...] Please give 'lpstat -t' for bpi51 (bullseye) and a buster machine. gene@bpi51:~$ lpstat -t scheduler is running system default

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-08 Thread gene heskett
On 5/8/23 07:49, Brian wrote: On Mon 08 May 2023 at 00:23:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/7/23 12:48, Brian wrote: [...] Please give 'lpstat -t' for bpi51 (bullseye) and a buster machine. gene@bpi51:~$ lpstat -t scheduler is running system default destination: PDF device for

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-08 Thread Brian
On Mon 08 May 2023 at 00:23:43 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/7/23 12:48, Brian wrote: [...] > > Please give 'lpstat -t' for bpi51 (bullseye) and a buster machine. > gene@bpi51:~$ lpstat -t > scheduler is running > system default destination: PDF > device for HLL2320D-RAW:

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread gene heskett
On 5/7/23 13:34, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 07/05/2023 12:26, gene heskett wrote: There is a light at the end of this dark tunnel, IF you are willing to change the brand name on the printer. But in your case you've already done that.  So now do a search for brotherusa, go there and

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread gene heskett
On 5/7/23 12:48, Brian wrote: On Sun 07 May 2023 at 11:26:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/6/23 19:29, Alex King wrote: Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a lot?) of people. I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian bullseye)

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 07/05/2023 12:26, gene heskett wrote: There is a light at the end of this dark tunnel, IF you are willing to change the brand name on the printer. But in your case you've already done that.  So now do a search for brotherusa, go there and download their driver installer, unpack it, run it

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread Brian
On Sun 07 May 2023 at 11:26:05 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/6/23 19:29, Alex King wrote: > > Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a > > lot?) of people. > > > > I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian > > bullseye) workstation by

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread gene heskett
On 5/6/23 19:29, Alex King wrote: Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a lot?) of people. I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian bullseye) workstation by USB.  I have CUPS installed. My printer prints sometime.  Other times, it

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 06/05/2023 20:02, Alex King wrote: Implying the user is at fault (which Brian isn't necessarily doing here,) or acting surprised when someone has trouble printing, is like gaslighting.  Maybe it works OK for you, but please understand that is not the general case. Take not of this, it'll

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-07 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sat May 6 21:11:09 2023 Alex King wrote: > Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a > lot?) of people. > > I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian > bullseye) workstation by USB.  I have CUPS installed. > > My printer prints sometime. 

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-06 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Alex King writes: > Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a lot?) > of people. > > I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian bullseye) > workstation by USB.  I have CUPS installed. > (...) Hellow Alex! In South Korea, most people does

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-06 Thread David
On Sun, 2023-05-07 at 11:02 +1200, Alex King wrote: > Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some > (a > lot?) of people. I bought an Epson WF-C5290 18 months ago, connected it up, installed the Linux driver provided on the Epson site, and it has been as solid as a rock.

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-06 Thread Alex King
Printing on Linux is poor.  CUPS is poor.  It doesn't work for some (a lot?) of people. I have a Brother HL-L2300D printer.  It is connected to my (Debian bullseye) workstation by USB.  I have CUPS installed. My printer prints sometime.  Other times, it spins up (makes a noise like it is

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-05 Thread gene heskett
On 5/5/23 18:51, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 May 2023 at 16:32:36 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/5/23 13:45, Brian wrote: [...] * An output from 'lpoptions -p HLL2320D_coyote -l' that indicates a broken system. this is bad? gene@coyote:~$ lpoptions -p HLL2320D_coyote -l

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-05 Thread gene heskett
On 5/5/23 13:45, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 May 2023 at 11:40:21 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/5/23 10:08, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 May 2023 at 15:57:49 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/4/23 15:43, zithro wrote: On 01 May 2023 14:53, Brian wrote: [...] Second question: is that possible to

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 May 2023 at 11:40:21 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/5/23 10:08, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 04 May 2023 at 15:57:49 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 5/4/23 15:43, zithro wrote: > > > > On 01 May 2023 14:53, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Second question: is that

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-05 Thread gene heskett
On 5/5/23 10:08, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 May 2023 at 15:57:49 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/4/23 15:43, zithro wrote: On 01 May 2023 14:53, Brian wrote: [...] Second question: is that possible to use CUPS/printing without avahi ? Absolutely, up to bullseye for both buster and bullseye,

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 17:53:08 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 13:34, Brian wrote: [...] > > A possible way forward is to execute > > > >sudo lpadmin -p HLL2320D-RAW -v ipp://192.168.71.3:631/printers/HLL2320D > > -E -m raw > which gets me this warning: > gene@bpi51:~$ sudo lpadmin

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 17:22, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 20:59:50 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: gene heskett wrote: I'd think I could start by comparing cupsd.conf's, but miss And I can't see the trees for all this forest in the way in both, but missing is a client.conf. I think...

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 14:31, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 13:22:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: [...] The -l option asks the queue for the specific options it offers. The response indicates something wrong with CUPS on bpi51. I haven't any problem when doing this and

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 13:34, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 13:03:50 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: Assuming your buster machines (which are working) have similar setups to bpi51, you couls try the two commands (and all the others in this thread) on one of those. one of

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > I'd think I could start by comparing cupsd.conf's, but miss And I > can't see the trees for all this forest in the way in both, but > missing is a client.conf. I think... But that is probably whats > wrong, me thinking. Your directory listings showed that both had a ppd

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 13:22:47 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: [...] > > The -l option asks the queue for the specific options it offers. The > > response > > indicates something wrong with CUPS on bpi51. I haven't any problem when > > doing > > this and getting

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 13:03:50 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: > > > > Assuming your buster machines (which are working) have similar setups to > > bpi51, > > you couls try the two commands (and all the others in this thread) on one of > > those. > > > one of those

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:39:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 11:28, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:02:58 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: [...] Your printing situation appears to be a sane one, so now for a test. Do

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 12:30, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:39:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 11:28, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:02:58 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: [...] Your printing situation appears to be a sane one, so now for a test. Do

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:39:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 11:28, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:02:58 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Your printing situation appears to be a sane one, so now for a test. Do > >

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 11:28, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:02:58 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: [...] Your printing situation appears to be a sane one, so now for a test. Do lp -d HLL2320D_coyote ANY_FILE_YOU_WANT Is not working, shell appears frozen but

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 10:56:00 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 10:08, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 01 May 2023 at 09:39:51 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > > lpinfo -v > > > gene@bpi51:~$ lpinfo -v > > > -bash: lpinfo: command not found > > > gene@bpi51:~$ sudo apt install lpinfo >

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Brian
On Mon 01 May 2023 at 11:02:58 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: [...] > > Your printing situation appears to be a sane one, so now for a test. Do > > > >lp -d HLL2320D_coyote ANY_FILE_YOU_WANT > > > Is not working, shell appears frozen but eventually returns: >

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 11:03, gene heskett wrote: On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 09:39:51 -0400, gene heskett wrote: gene@bpi51:~$ lpstat -l -e Brother_HL_L2320D_series_coyote network none ipps://Brother%20HL-L2320D%20series%20%40%20coyote._ipps._tcp.local/cups

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 10:40, Brian wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 09:39:51 -0400, gene heskett wrote: gene@bpi51:~$ lpstat -l -e Brother_HL_L2320D_series_coyote network none ipps://Brother%20HL-L2320D%20series%20%40%20coyote._ipps._tcp.local/cups Brother_MFC_J6920DW_coyote network none

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unansweredseveraltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread gene heskett
On 5/1/23 10:08, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 May 2023 at 09:39:51 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: lpinfo -v gene@bpi51:~$ lpinfo -v -bash: lpinfo: command not found gene@bpi51:~$ sudo apt install lpinfo Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state