On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Michael Barnes wrote:
Are you going to share the solution? After all this, we'd like to know what it was and what fixed it. This is, after all, a learning exercise for all of us.
Michael, Thought I had, but here it is: 1.) Slackware is multilib capable (perhaps others are, too). Thie means that package such as gcc, glibc, and most of the others are can be compiled to support both 64- and 32-bit applications on a 64-bit host. I installed the multilib and compat32 packages here. The Dell C1760nw (for network/wireless) driver is the Xerox Phaser 6000B, available as only .deb and .rpm packages for 32-bit systems; no support for 64-bit systems. Slackware has a rpm2tgz package that I used to repack the .rpm to the .tgz format. Then I installed the driver. 2.) The C1760 user guide has step-by-step instructions on pages 41-42 for setting the printer's IP address, netmask, and gateway using the arrow and checkmark buttons (why a printer needs these I've no idea). After multiple re-dos I got those properly set. Having already defined the printer in CUPS (modifying the one used for the failed HP C2550 color laser), I sent a test page to the printer and it quickly came out. Then I printed a GoogleEarth image of the project site. The file size is 176K but it took more than 5 minutes for the printer to digest the rendered version sent by the desktop via lpd. But the output is excellent. My color printing needs are infrequent and project related like this GE image so printing speed is not a concern. Regards, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
