Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other networked sysstems. Your choice.) BrowseAddress @LOCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not #your dial up connection. BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1 BrowseAllow @LOCAL #This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces. BrowseOrder deny,allow Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From @LOCAL /Location Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log level set to see if you get additional error messages. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer - works!
At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other networked sysstems. Your choice.) BrowseAddress @LOCAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not #your dial up connection. BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1 BrowseAllow @LOCAL #This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces. BrowseOrder deny,allow Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From @LOCAL /Location Location /admin # # You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions. # The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who # is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks. You can change # the group name using the SystemGroup directive. # AuthType Basic AuthClass System ## Restrict access to local domain Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 #Encryption Required /Location Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log level set to see if you get additional error messages. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Thanks Bryan! I am able to add printers again. This looks like one of those cases where one says That was easy when the solution is presented, getting there is the hard part. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Did you select a security level setting when you installed? Which one was it? Also, can you do a `less /etc/hosts.deny` ? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: At 06:43 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 09:06 pm, Frank Bax wrote: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Is it possible that your firewall is disallowing local connections to port 631? How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Also, can you do a ps -C cupsd and tell me if an active process is returned? -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing jobs. If you are unable to connect on that port, it would seem to suggest that cups is either not properly installed or not working. If you check for the cupsd process and find it is missing, but the cups packages are installed, then either cups is not set to start at boot, or there is some error that is preventing it from starting. One way to check on an error is to drop to command line, su to root and issue the command: /etc/init.d/cups start or service cups start. You should get some type of response back, either OK or Failed. You can check the status by issuing the command /etc/init.d/cups status or service cups status . If it tells you that the process is dead but the subsys is locked, then you know that there is an error when the script runs that is killing the process but leaving the lock file in place. Then we can start issuing commands in verbose mode and see what kind of errors pop up. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 08:25 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 08:05 am, Frank Bax wrote: How do I check that - I did not consciously install/configure firewall. Frank, just to provide some background info, the cups daemon listens on port 631 for connections, both for admin and printing jobs. If you are unable to connect on that port, it would seem to suggest that cups is either not properly installed or not working. If you check for the cupsd process and find it is missing, but the cups packages are installed, then either cups is not set to start at boot, or there is some error that is preventing it from starting. One way to check on an error is to drop to command line, su to root and issue the command: /etc/init.d/cups start or service cups start. You should get some type of response back, either OK or Failed. You can check the status by issuing the command /etc/init.d/cups status or service cups status . If it tells you that the process is dead but the subsys is locked, then you know that there is an error when the script runs that is killing the process but leaving the lock file in place. Then we can start issuing commands in verbose mode and see what kind of errors pop up. CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We are making progress, but cups WWW Admin still produces same error: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We are making progress, but cups WWW Admin still produces same error: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Can you check /var/log/cups/access_log and tail -f the file, then try to access cups from the browser to see if an error pops up? Or just check that log for any errors in general. On my system, each job that is sent from any of the 3 networked computers results in a post entry in the access file. You should be seeing some activity when you try to access cups. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 09:29 AM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:19 am, Frank Bax wrote: CUPS daemon was not running - it's running now cupsd (pid 2699) is running... A quick check of /var/log/cups/error_log and I found a little problem with hostname, so I fixed that and cups now starts properly on reboot. We are making progress, but cups WWW Admin still produces same error: An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) Can you check /var/log/cups/access_log and tail -f the file, then try to access cups from the browser to see if an error pops up? Or just check that log for any errors in general. On my system, each job that is sent from any of the 3 networked computers results in a post entry in the access file. You should be seeing some activity when you try to access cups. No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cups service or reboot (no message during cups startup). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cups service or reboot (no message during cups startup). Can you post your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file? We may want to make a change in that file from Log info to Log debug to see if we get more information. Also, assuming that you have checked the error.log and see nothing else significant there. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 02:44 PM 1/13/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:03 am, Frank Bax wrote: No log entry when accessing browser interface. When trying to add printer through PrinterDrake, I get a shutdown entry (3 times) when Making printer available to cups. In fact, only message is shutdown message when I manually stop cups service or reboot (no message during cups startup). Can you post your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file? We may want to make a change in that file from Log info to Log debug to see if we get more information. Also, assuming that you have checked the error.log and see nothing else significant there. /etc/cups/cupsd.conf BrowseInterval 0 Browsing Off /var/log/cups/error_log E [13/Jan/2004:10:46:00 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:49:41 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:50:14 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. E [13/Jan/2004:10:50:46 -0500] Scheduler shutting down due to SIGTERM. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 03:22 pm, many eyes noted that Troy T. Hall wrote: Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy CUPS works well on my local printers, parallel and USB, is this unusual? Gives me a heap of driver options also. Charlie -- I'm not young enough to know everything. --J. M. Barrie This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something. The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 07:09 AM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:33 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I think you are right, but my recollection (with MDK91) is that CUPS it is not installed until the first time you run PrinterDrake. But on this system I never ran PrinterDrake on MDK91 before upgrading the system to MDK92. Actually, I think that this would depend on whether you have a printer connected when you do the install. If you do and it is detected by Mandrake, then it installs CUPS by default unless you tell it not to. You don't have to have CUPS, you can use lpd or one of the other printer systems but you do have to have something. The MDK91 install was default, except I disabled gnome and Koffice. Then I did the MDK92 upgrade. The above sequence is exactly what I described in my first email. Everything is fine until I choose the printer name and click OK. Instead of choosing the model, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. My guess would be that you are missing some necessary packages from the Mandrake core system. If I were trying to troubleshoot this, I would urpmi the CUPS software and try to bypass the printer drake utils and set the printer up manually in CUPS. Hopefully, that should trigger the right files to be installed because of dependencies and then the wizard should work again. In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. That is always an option but you may not have exhausted the possibility of manually selecting the printer. Go to Configuration, Printing, CUPS WWW admin tool, click on Manage Printers, Click Add Printer and login as root. Enter the name, location and Description, click Continue. Select Device, I assume parallel port #1. If connected to the router, choose LPD/LPR Host. Select Make, Continue, Model, Continue and you should get that the new printer has been added successfully. Now try to print and see what happens. If you get an error, you may want to check software installation and make sure that you have the cups, cups-drivers, and cups-common packages installed. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 08:03 PM 1/12/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 10:10 pm, Frank Bax wrote: In MCC rpmDrake, I searched for 'cups' and noticed several packages were not installed, so installed them. The next time I ran PrinterDrake, a bunch more (6 or more?) packages were also installed. Now I am able to select my printer type, but get the same error as before - just one step later. I do not have the skills to troubleshoot this with manual setup of CUPS. I think its time for wipe/load. That is always an option but you may not have exhausted the possibility of manually selecting the printer. OK, I'll defer that option for a little while... Go to Configuration, Printing, CUPS WWW admin tool An error occured while loading http://localhost:631/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 631) In case someone can determine that more packages are missing from my system, I did a list of packages (rpm -qa | sort) on a similar 9.1 system and the problem 9.2 system - then created a nice table to compare them. It will be at this site for a few days: MDK91: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmSandy.txt MDK92: http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/rpmChris.txt Compare:http://www.execulink.com/~fbax/MDK92upg/Mandrake_rpm_list.htm Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sunday 11 January 2004 12:14 am, Frank Bax wrote: Printer port was already set to ECP+EPP. I tried all possible settings anyway with same result. I plan to use a dlink 704P to share the printer, but that is not auto-detected either. When I disable all three autodetection options, then locally connected is the only option presented for manual setup, so I thought I would try to configure printer locally, then change connection type to remote. Although it is possible to share some printers through the Dlink 704P router, it is not as seamless as doing so is under Windows because you don't have access to the Dlink software. Also, some things just will not work correctly, especially those things that require two-way communication between the printer and the computer. Multifunction devices will NOT work correctly, except for printing, and HP printers that have higher resolutions supported for special paper types, like photo paper, will give you major errors when used as a shared printer (the printer detects the paper type and tries to offload higher intensity processing of the image to the CPU which can't happen off the Dlink 704). In all, I used the Dlink 704P for about a year and only had a single inkjet printer hooked up to it for about 3 months, it is much easier and more seamless to hook the printer up to a Linux machine directly and share the printer among the Lan. Also, I have not seen any noticeable lag when printing large jobs through a print server, unlike with Windows where a job could slow the print server machine down by half. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:46 am, Frank Bax wrote: The print server is not connected to parallel port - it has it's own ip address. I am able to physically connect the printer to either print server or the parallel port, but cannot get either one to work. Mandrake 9.2 does not auto-detect either of these connections. When I try to manually setup a locally connected printer, I get the error in my first message. I have not been able to find the 'clues' that allow me to manually setup a printer connected to a dlink print server. Therefore, I seem to be unable to setup any kind of printer on MDK92. From Dlink Tech support: How can I print to my DI-704P, DI-713P, or DI-714P+ router using Linux? The D-Link router is a port redirector. For Linux you should be printing to the IP of the router (192.168.0.1) and the port named lp (lower case L and P). You need to set this up manually, Linux can not autodetect devices that are directly on the router. Also, check your printer type, there are an awful lot of consumer level printers that are strictly designed to not work directly off a network without some type of smart print server attached. People have reported problems with caching of jobs, special instruction sets, etc. Dlink has a large list of printers that they will tell you will cause problems attached directly to the router. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
At 09:59 AM 1/11/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 11 January 2004 08:46 am, Frank Bax wrote: The print server is not connected to parallel port - it has it's own ip address. I am able to physically connect the printer to either print server or the parallel port, but cannot get either one to work. Mandrake 9.2 does not auto-detect either of these connections. When I try to manually setup a locally connected printer, I get the error in my first message. I have not been able to find the 'clues' that allow me to manually setup a printer connected to a dlink print server. Therefore, I seem to be unable to setup any kind of printer on MDK92. From Dlink Tech support: How can I print to my DI-704P, DI-713P, or DI-714P+ router using Linux? The D-Link router is a port redirector. For Linux you should be printing to the IP of the router (192.168.0.1) and the port named lp (lower case L and P). You need to set this up manually, Linux can not autodetect devices that are directly on the router. Also, check your printer type, there are an awful lot of consumer level printers that are strictly designed to not work directly off a network without some type of smart print server attached. People have reported problems with caching of jobs, special instruction sets, etc. Dlink has a large list of printers that they will tell you will cause problems attached directly to the router. Aha, I finally found the manual setup for network printer after clicking Expert mode. Right after giving the printer a name (but before telling mandrake what make/model it is), I get the same error as when I was trying to setup the printer as locally connected via parallel port. Failed to configure printer Printer I setup a MDK91 system last year to print through the same model of dlink router and it works fine. I have also configured locally connected printers on MDK91. This computer is different because it did not have any printers setup when I did the upgrade to MDK92. Now I am unable to setup a printer (either local or remote) on this system. Perhaps some component is missing from this system - how do I check for that? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 08:46:37 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:26 AM 1/11/04, jason pearl wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:14:38 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printer port was already set to ECP+EPP. I tried all possible settings anyway with same result. I plan to use a dlink 704P to share the printer, but that is not auto-detected either. When I disable all three autodetection options, then locally connected is the only option presented for manual setup, so I thought I would try to configure printer locally, then change connection type to remote. Frank At 11:22 PM 1/10/04, Troy T. Hall wrote: From the manual If you want to use a parallel printer connected locally to your machine, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP or at least to one of ECP or EPP and NOT to SPP, unless you have a really old printer. If the parallel port is not set this way you might still be able to print, but your printer will not be detected autmoatically and you will have to configure it by hand. ... Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank ok so are you saying that you are using a print server that isnt connected to your computer directly via Parallel? I just got mine setup after searching for clues on how to setup a remote printer correctly. The print server is not connected to parallel port - it has it's own ip address. I am able to physically connect the printer to either print server or the parallel port, but cannot get either one to work. Mandrake 9.2 does not auto-detect either of these connections. When I try to manually setup a locally connected printer, I get the error in my first message. I have not been able to find the 'clues' that allow me to manually setup a printer connected to a dlink print server. Therefore, I seem to be unable to setup any kind of printer on MDK92. the answer is basically open the cups configureation and then choose expert in the menu bar at the top... then ad printer. It will then give you about 4 choices. choose the remote lpd printer . then put the ip of the print server (mine is 192.168.1.10) it goes as the hostname. then on dlink it uses port names instead of numbers..the second line get the name of the port you setup in the printserver config. mine is hp_printer... then go on with the configuration and choose your printer type and it will work. I have the d-link DP300U print server. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N uptime: 12:09:17 up 54 min, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sunday 11 January 2004 01:32 pm, Frank Bax wrote: I setup a MDK91 system last year to print through the same model of dlink router and it works fine. I have also configured locally connected printers on MDK91. This computer is different because it did not have any printers setup when I did the upgrade to MDK92. Now I am unable to setup a printer (either local or remote) on this system. Perhaps some component is missing from this system - how do I check for that? If you manually select the printer type and add it, the components needed should come down automatically, as long as you use printerdrake. Of course, I am still using 9.1 so I can't speak to 9.2 directly. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
From the manual If you want to use a parallel printer connected locally to your machine, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP or at least to one of ECP or EPP and NOT to SPP, unless you have a really old printer. If the parallel port is not set this way you might still be able to print, but your printer will not be detected autmoatically and you will have to configure it by hand. ... Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.560 / Virus Database: 352 - Release Date: 1/8/04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
Printer port was already set to ECP+EPP. I tried all possible settings anyway with same result. I plan to use a dlink 704P to share the printer, but that is not auto-detected either. When I disable all three autodetection options, then locally connected is the only option presented for manual setup, so I thought I would try to configure printer locally, then change connection type to remote. Frank At 11:22 PM 1/10/04, Troy T. Hall wrote: From the manual If you want to use a parallel printer connected locally to your machine, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP or at least to one of ECP or EPP and NOT to SPP, unless you have a really old printer. If the parallel port is not set this way you might still be able to print, but your printer will not be detected autmoatically and you will have to configure it by hand. ... Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 00:14:38 -0500 Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Printer port was already set to ECP+EPP. I tried all possible settings anyway with same result. I plan to use a dlink 704P to share the printer, but that is not auto-detected either. When I disable all three autodetection options, then locally connected is the only option presented for manual setup, so I thought I would try to configure printer locally, then change connection type to remote. Frank At 11:22 PM 1/10/04, Troy T. Hall wrote: From the manual If you want to use a parallel printer connected locally to your machine, make sure that the parallel port mode is set to ECP+EPP or at least to one of ECP or EPP and NOT to SPP, unless you have a really old printer. If the parallel port is not set this way you might still be able to print, but your printer will not be detected autmoatically and you will have to configure it by hand. ... Also CUPS is generally used for remotely connected printers. Troy - Original Message - From: Frank Bax [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2201 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer My MDK9.1 system did not have a printer configured. After upgrading to 9.2, I tried to add a printer. When I first click on PrinterDrake in MCC, I get a message saying CUPS is not automatically started during bootup, would I like to enable automatic starting - I select YES. My local printer (HP4) is not auto-detected, so I disable those checkboxes. Printer is on parallel port 0. I'm then asked if it's a multi-function printer - no. Then I get Please wait - Making printer port available for CUPS. After a many seconds, a window opens asking to give the printer a name. It doesn't matter if I change the name or just leave it as Printer, when I click Next, I get Failed to configure printer Printer. How can I setup my printer? Frank ok so are you saying that you are using a print server that isnt connected to your computer directly via Parallel? I just got mine setup after searching for clues on how to setup a remote printer correctly. -- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ Keep your friends close and your enemies closer-Tupac ++ Kurrupted Visionz Phx, AZregistered linux user #307811 MDK 9.2 LinuxMachine# 193475, 227341 AMD64 Opteron 1.6http://counter.li.org ASUS SK8N 23:25:10 up 2:07, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.07 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
