On Fri 13 Aug 2021 at 15:26:03 +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Brian (12021-08-13): > > Did you read the Release Notes for Bullseye? (No advice on cat controls, > > though :) ). > > Enough to upgrade, but I do not know what it has to do with connecting a > printer to an OpenWRT router.
There is advice on printing and scanning there. > > Also, the printing system does not have a unified driver. The drivers > > used depend on the job, but they will always produce an outcome that > > is suitable to be sent to the printer, irrespective of the make or > > model of printer. Contrast that with the pre-buster situation. The > > need for non-free vendor drivers has been eliminated. > > It is free and it is the same driver for all brands and models, > "driverless" is still a driver, just like usb-storage is a driver. Consider a driverless car. It is not really driverless in the sense you espouse. Otherwise it would not be going anywhere, would it? >From the point of view of the passengers and the Authorities there isn't a human driver. > > I am surprised you had to install ipp-usb. It is a Recommends: of > > cups-daemon. > > APT::Install-Recommends 0; > > is one of the first dozen things I do to make a new Debian instable > suitable for my tastes. Fine when the user knows what he is doing but hopefully this will not be common practice with most users. > > Did I not recommend sane-airscan earlier in this thread? > > I forgot. I will check when the printer is plugged again. You would be doing yourself a favour. -- Brian.
