On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:45, Bill wrote:
> I have a lexmark Z25 printer (USB).
Ok, so first you wanna check that it shows up as a USB device. I don't
have any usb devices here to check this with, but I'm pretty sure you'll
see it listed in the "hardware list" part of the "hardware" section in
mandrake control center.
> Under Mandrake 9.0 the lexmark drivers/print utilities work fine, but I
> can't print anything.
what do they do?
>
> I have ALL of the print files installed from Mndrake 9.0, as well as
> ghostscript and enscript as reqd.
>
> The message that I get is "Printer lexmark is not defined in any of the rc
> files" - I've checked and that is correct.
hrmmm. That's a little cryptic. I've not seen printers mentioned in rc
files... I don't actually know anything about these drivers though, so
if you know something that I don't then say so.
>
> What is required to be done here?
I'd suggest that you proceed by shutting down lpd completely, then
restarting cups. So:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart
(and if cups isn't running, it will be started)
then, load up a web browser and go to "localhost:631". You'll need to
log in as root. Add your printer there. I checked and your printer isn't
listed, but it might be compatible with one of the ones that are there.
There is also a printer config thing in mandrake control center but I
prefer the cups one personally.
It looks like you should just be able to download the drivers from the
webpage though... How do these utilities work? do they have their own
log? I guess it might be helpful to look in /var/log/messages,
/var/log/lpr/* and /var/log/cups/*
> I'm under the impression that perhaps there are some changes re printing
> between Mdk 8.2 and Mdk 9.0.
Not particularly. It still ships with both cups and lpd.
James.
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