Hi everyone, I'm a new Linux user, and am having trouble getting my printer to work. I'll start by listing the computer hardware, and then give a detailed list of what I've tried so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I apologize if this question has been answered before (if so, point me to the past thread).
Anyway, this message is a bit long, so here goes: I installed Red Hat 7.1 on my Dell Dimension 4100 on one hard drive, and Windows 98 on a second hard drive. Next, I set-up the PPP without too much trouble. I went to www.linuxprinting.org, and they seemed to be recommending the Epson Stylus C60 as a good, well-supported option. It was on sale, so I bought it. So here's how I tried to set it up: 1.) www.linuxprinting.org referred me to an Italian website: space.it/computer/wvtberti, where they recommended using a CUPS install with gimp_print. 2.) Downloaded four files: cups-1.1.14-0.i386.rpm cups-devel-1.1.14-0.i386.rpm cups-pstoraster-1.1.14-0.i386.rpm gimp_print-4.2.0-1.src.rpm 3.) They recommended deleting several files to avoid problems, so following their advice I did the following: rpm -e printconf-gui rpm -e printconf rpm -e LPRng while deleting the printconf it listed 5 files that couldn't be deleted, so I deleted them manually: /var/cache/alchemist/printconf /usr/share/printconf/tests /usr/share/printconf/mf_rules /usr/share/printconf /etc/alchemist/namespace/printconf This whole step made me nervous. 4.) Copied a file called gimp_print-cups.spec as a text file into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS 5.) Executed the following commmands: rpm -Uvh cups-1.1.14-0.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh cups-devel-1.1.14-0.i386.rpm rpm -Uvh cups-pstoraster-1.1.14-0.i386 showed 100% with no errors 6.) cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpm -bb gimp_print-cups.spec returned the error: error:File /usr/src/redhat?SOURCES/gimp_print-4.2.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory tried moving gimp_print-4.2.0-1.src.rpm to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES but it still had problems, so moved it back then did: rpm -Uvh --force gimp-print-4.2.0-1.src.rpm 100% ok then did: cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS rpm -bb gimp_print-cups.spec pages of things scrolled by, and looked ok with no obvious error messages 7.) Rebooted, logged in as root, went to http://localhost:631/admin logged in as root Went through their menu, and it looked like only two reasonable driver choices: EPSON New Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 EPSON Stylus Color Series CUPS v1.1 tried both also, printer was hooked-up to parellel port, so selected this option. It showed my printer being all ok, but would not print a test page Note, had lots of network errors while doing this in Netscape 8.) went to .bash_profile as root and added the following: PRINTER="name I gave the printer" added PRINTER to export source .bash_profile then did: export | grep PRINTER and it returned: declare -x PRINTER="name I gave the printer" 9.) At this point they claim you can just use printtool or printconf, or use the CUPS web-based interface to finish things up. Neither printtool nor printconf are recognized commands now on my machine, so that won't work. I suspect it's because of step 3.) above. By the CUPS web-based interface I assume they mean the site in step 7.) above, which shows everything to be set-up, but won't print a test page. Whew, that was a lot of typing, but I figured I should include everything. Any suggestions for fixing this thing, and getting my printer to work? Thanks very much for reading, and for any suggestions. Remember, I'm a real newbie, so you may have to spoon feed me. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
