TSL 3.0 is the first time I have tried to set up CUPS. Until now I have used BSD variants including LPRng, so I figure my problems with cups are just me and the learning curve.
Steven -- I did get past the first bump that perhaps you missed, my parallel port driver was not being loaded. On my system, I did 'modprobe parport_pc' to get it to load the parallel port driver immediately. (Do 'dmesg' to see messages indicating it loaded.) I put parport_pc into /etc/modules so that it will be loaded after reboot. I deleted the old /etc/cupsd/printers.conf file and restarted (service cupsd restart) then I used the web interface to cupsd (http://myservername:631/) to configure the printer on the parallel port. Now for the strangeness: even though it lists my printer correctly by name (HP LaserJet 4ML/PS) (so it must be talking on parport) it lists the device as "Device URI: parallel:/dev/unknown-parallel0" and printing a test page fails. The status message it shows is "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds..." I can queue print jobs and see them in the queue. I can remove them. But nothing goes to the printer. I tried manually editing the /etc/cupsd/printing.conf to force it to use /dev/lp0 as the device to no avail. Brian _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
