Do the following:
Do not reinstall Linux Mandrake 7.2.
Try to print directly to the laser printer by entering (you can use any
short text file):
cat ~/.bashrc > /dev/lp0
If this works (at least some of the text visible), there is a problem
with the printer spooler (CUPS or LPD), otherwise there is a problem
with the kernel and its modules or with the hardware.
To solve the printing spooler problem, try a clean reinstallation: clean
up your system by entering
urpme cups lpr
saying yes to the deletion of all dependent packages and entering
rpm -rf /etc/cups /var/log/cups /var/spool/cups /var/spool/lpd
Download and install the updated CUPS packages from
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/
To download and install the packages simply copy and paste this into a
terminal window:
mkdir update
cd update
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-1.1.4-7mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-drivers-0.3.6-39mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-5.50-44mdk.src.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-module-X-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-utils-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-client-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm
wget
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-common-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm
wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/drakgw
wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-print.txt
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
cp drakgw /usr/sbin
chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/drakgw
Reinstall the CUPS frontends:
urpmi xpp qtcups kups
Now install your laser printer as described in cups-print.txt or as in
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th
Try the installation of the printers with "printerdrake" at first.
Tell me exactly, step by step, what you have done, which program you
have used, which driver you have chosen, and so on. Does "kups" show the
printer ports? Do "printerdrake", "kups", and the web interface
(http://localhost:631/) autodetect the printers? Do you get error
messages? Can you print the test page, can you print from applications
as described.
If you still cannot print can you send me the files
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd,
/var/log/cups/error_log, and the output of the "lsmod" command.
Check also whether the CUPS daemon (the program which runs in the
background waiting for printing jobs and processing them) is running? Do
ps auxwww|grep cups
If there is a line containing "cupsd" in the output, the daemon is
running. If not, enter
service cups start
to start the CUPS daemon for the current session and
chkconfig --add cups
to make the CUPS daemon automatically being started at every boot.
Now try the ink jet. Do the same as with the laser. If this printer is
not autodetected, enter
modprobe printer
service cups restart
and try again. Note that CUPS needs something like 30 seconds to come
up.
When you haveboth printers working, reboot and check whether they still
work. If the USB printer does not work any more but the laser printer
still works, edit the /etc/sysconfig/usb file adding the line
PRINTER=yes
and do
service USB restart
service CUPS restart
and try to print on the USB printer again.
Till
Lionel Chan wrote:
>
> No problem printing under Windows or Redhat.
> Webmin and kups does not help either. Tks
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, you wrote:
> > Is your printer correctly connected and turned on, is there any ink in
> > the cartridge? Can you print under Windows?
> >
> > Till
> >
> >
> > Lionel Chan wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here's my configuration: -
> > > LPT0 - HP 6L laser printer
> > > USB0 - HP deskjet 870Cxi
> > >
> > > I've installed 7.2 5 times. Other than the very 1st time I couldn't get my
> > > printers to print. No matter what I try nothing gets printed.
> > > I've tried CUPS and lpr to no avail. Any tips/help is greatly appreciated.
> > > Tks
> > > --
> > > CHAN Kin Poon
> --
> CHAN Kin Poon
