On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:59, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> Situation in a nutshell - I knowingly and under no duress installed
> Mandriva from the first CD of the powerpack 2006. That is, that's all I
> downloaded. I knew that that would mean work down the road, but I sort of
> wanted that, in order not to get lots of stuff I didn't need.
>
> More or less it's worked out OK. I can develop on the Linux side, which is
> the main thing. But I'd dearly like to be able to print on the Linux side
> also. Back in the day I tried to get an earlier version of CUPS to
> recognize a HP DeskJet - that was heinous, and so I gave it up. As I
> understand it, though, in this day and age it ought not to be a problem to
> have Mandriva grok a LaserJet 1014.
>
> I installed CUPS through a tarball (I have been forced to stop using RPMs
> because of the ridiculous dependency problem - I even get complaints about
> missing shared libs when the thing is actually in place under the correct
> name in the correct directory, so I said to hell with rpmdrake and urpmi).
> I have gotten to the stage where at least one of the print utilities
> supplied with Mandriva detects the HP printer. Using lpstat does the same.
> However, I am not able to enable the printer to actually print, because
> there is no "enable"/"disable" command pair anywhere on my machine, as the
> web sites avow there must be.
>
> Lacking the "enable" and "disable" commands, what exactly should I do?
is HLIP installed?
>
> Regards,
> AHS
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