Roger Leigh <rle...@codelibre.net> writes: hi Brian, hi Roger,
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 05:39:46PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Sun 30 Sep 2012 at 13:00:44 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: >> >> > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> writes: >> > >> > > The printer should be capable of being set up with lpadmin or from the >> > > web interface, but I guess this is not what the substance of your mail >> > > is about. >> > >> > Yes, I have previously set up the same printer and it worked this way >> > :-( >> > >> > Maybe something in the kernel changed so that I need to load another >> > module? >> >> I don't think you are missing any modules. parport_pc, lp and ppdev >> should be sufficient and are all that I have loaded here. >> >> The "Add Printer" function gets its information for the parallel port >> from /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel, Executing that file as root should >> give a description of the printer attached. With the printer unattached >> the output is "unknown". It was recognized: direct parallel:/dev/lp0 "HP LaserJet 1100" "HP LaserJet 1100 LPT #1" "MFG:Hewlett-Packard;MDL:HP LaserJet 1100;DES:HP LaserJet 1100 Printer;CMD:MLC,PCL,PJL;CLS:PRINTER;REV:1.1;IO PREFS:ECP18;" "" > Also: check that the CUPS lp backend is executable. Thanks for the idea, I found this in the /var/log/cups/error_log: E [03/Oct/2012:19:16:53 +0200] [CGI] Directory "/usr/lib/cups/backend" has insecure permissions (040777/uid=0/gid=0). It worked after I adjusted the permissions (which resulted in the backends being shown on the admin page) and added a symlink from backend-available to to ../backend/parallel (after doing this I can select the parallel port printer). I guess something went wrong during update of the cups packages? Thank you both very much for your help! -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipara1kj....@bitburger.home.felix
