On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 21:05 -0500, Don Parris wrote: > On Dec 8, 2007 5:55 PM, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:37 +0530, arnuld wrote: > > 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. > > > Ubuntu broke cups. The web interface no longer works. > > > That's funny. I just connected an old Okidata ML321 to Ubuntu 7.10 > using the CUPS web interface today. The only problems I encountered > were needing to ensure the printer was in the IBM-emulation mode and > re-connecting the cable afterwards. We could not get the darned thing > to print squat until we disconnected and re-connected the cable.
The version in Ubuntu 6.06 (and therefore gNewSense 1.x) relfects the problems arnold is having - i havent used the later verisons of ubuntu, so i cant comment on them. kk > > And you can manage CUPS printers from the CLI: > http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html > > > :-) > > Cheers! > Don > -- > D.C. Parris > Minister, Journalist, Free Software Advocate > https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris > http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
