Well, since no one is answering, I'll through something in. I think that the Live CDs are simply not running all the proper daemons for the printer to function. The Live CD for OpenSolaris has the popular driver for my printer listed and it automatically uses it, but I believe when you do a crontab -l there's nothing really running after booting to the Live CD...which would explain why nothing will print...I think.
The printer works fine under Windows so I knwo the printer, cables, et al are fine. I tried it under Ubunto 9.10, OpenSUSE 11.2, etc (haven't tried my MINT CD yet), but the printer acts the same way--nothing. And I do believe there's a CUPs daemon or something that needs to be running in order to print, and I didn't see anything. But I haven't been the printer goddess in 9 years (I'm an old Solaris SA from long ago), and I'm so rusty that I could be wrong on this ;). So, I'm guessing that if I do a full install to the HD and boot up with all nec processes running, it'll print just fine. I'll test to make sure that my theory is correct. At any rate, the drivers for my printer have been out for quite a while (for LINUX, anyway) so I'm assuming that they're not the prob. Ubuntu is using the SpliX V2.0.0 as recommended, and it didn't work, either. FOOMATIC is on all of them; didn't work. But again, I bet if I check the daemons under root, nothing is running that I need to get a printer to work. (Some of the CDs I don't have the root password to check.) For all of you who have a Samsung cheapo printer, for your amusement: http://splix.ap2c.org/ Kim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
