On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> All my printers are networked via ethernet. I have an ancient desktop > Laserjet > 4 Plus whose IP address is 192.168.0.15. I can ping it fine. But I can't > seem > to send a print job to it. > > First, I migrated all my printer setups from my old Ubuntu hard disk. I did > this by copying /etc/init.d/cups/cups.conf and the entire contents of the > ppd > folder. I also restarted the computer. The printers appear in the Printer > configuration window. I can send a test page to it from any of the three > drivers that I have installed, and the test page appears in the print > queue. > However, in the print queue it is listed as pending. > > The printer is enabled, accepting jobs. I can't find anything wrong in the > GUI > for the driver properties. However, looking at top the cupsd service is not > running. I thought you started and stopped CUPS with > > /etc/init.d/cups/ ./cups stop/start > > But that does not work, and there doesn't seem to be any executable files > in > the folder anyway. I know in top when it is running it is listed as cupsd, > but > that doesn't work either. > > I have also restarted the computer, but the cupsd service is still not > running. > I think it is supposed to start automatically whenever an app sends a print > job > to a printer, but I'm not sure about that. > > I really need to get my printers working ASAP. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > find /etc/init.d -name "*cups*" the results should give you something you can then run with a "start" at the end to get it going, for example: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S09cups start if the results of the find command are null, then you likely don't have cups installed. good luck. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
