On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 12:25 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > We got a new printer today. It's the same model as our old printer, so it > should work, right? I followed the Gentoo Printing Guide up to the point > where one sets up the printer in the CUPS administrative interface. It > does not offer me a parallel port choice for the device. My kernel is > built with parallel port support and I have modprobed parport and > parport_pc: > > catherine ~ # lsmod | grep parport > parport_pc 32868 0 > parport 26696 1 parport_pc > > And dmseg is aware of the printer: > > catherine ~ # dmesg | grep -i print > parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C88 > > But on the CUPS interface, I can choose from > > AppSocket/HPJetDirect > Backend Error Handler > HP Printer (HPLIP) > Internet Printing Protocol (http) > Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) > LPD/LPR Host or Printer > SCSI Printer > Serial Port #1 > > but no parallel port. It used to be on there. How can I get it back, or > is parallel port called something else now? > >
I didn't have parallel printer character support compiled into the kernel. It works now, but how do I print from a remote computer? I've set up the security on the host that has the printer hooked up to it, but how do I configure remote hosts running Linux so that they know about it? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
