I have EPSON LX-300+ dot-matrix printer which works fine on Fedora, Arch and Debian. I usually got to CUPS web-interface localhost:631 and set-up my printer there using root account. on gNS I can't do that. whether root account is enabled or not, gNS nevr accepts my root user-name/password combination and throws back the same Pop-up for entering username/password again and again.
<RANT> Google search for "UBUNTU printing" or "UBUNTU printer set-up" tells me that I need to have a Desktop and then go to "Menu -> System Administration" or to "Menu-> Printing". I searched on 2 pages of links I get from Google and all talk about how to use Desktop Menu :(. I even hung on #ubuntu for sometime and noticed that majority of UBUNTU community is totally common-sense-less. They are always asking for "How to burn the CD ? What GUI for burning CD ? Can't we have a GUI for Network Configuration. I conclude that UBUNTU encourages the same thinking and environment that Microsoft encourages: "end-user must NOT know about his syetem. he must point-and-click, even though it fails most of the time but end-user must rely on GUI and if he fails, the search must not return anything useful. Praise the Desktop and icons and click and throw the command-line into Trash." </RANT> I don't use Desktops. I use wmii + Emacs + Firefox + rxvt-unicode, sometimes I use Screen. Is it possible to set-up a printer on gNS without GNOME menu ? -- arnuld http://lispmachine.wordpress.com -- Email and shopping with the feelgood factor! 55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
