On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I swear, printing is the blackest of the black arts.
Nah. Wireless is. > I finally found the problem and all is back to normal. I had a power > failure here a couple weeks ago, brief, but long enough to knock out my > desktop computer and the HDHomeRun TV tuner, neither of which I keep > on the UPS. When the HDHomeRun came back up it decided it should be > 192.168.0.135. Now, this was not a wise choice, since that is the > address of the Xerox. Hence I was sure my printer was connected because > I could ping it. Unfortunately, ping just tells you that it got a > response, not the name of the responder. Glad your situation was so easily resolved. > The phasersmart.com tool is where I figured this out. You start the > tool by entering the address of the printer and, of course, it couldn't > find the printer. So I just entered the address of the printer alone > and up popped the HDHomeRun. Mystery solved. Another way, for future reference, is to print a test page from the CUPS admin interface at localhost:631. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
