Re: [expert] Printer setup woes

2000-11-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Download updated Mandrake RPMs from http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Read my article http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th Use the web interface or lpadmin for configuration. Have the PPD file which came with your printer handy and configure the printer as described

Re: [expert] Printer setup woes

2000-11-16 Thread Laurent Duperval
On 16 Nov, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Which Mandrake version are you using, and when you use 7.2, which > printing system (CUPS or lpr)? > 7.1 and I'm using lpr. Last night I downloaded CUPS (not a cooker release because the RPM had a bunch of depencies I couldn't figure out) but I'm still trying t

Re: [expert] Printer setup woes

2000-11-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
Which Mandrake version are you using, and when you use 7.2, which printing system (CUPS or lpr)? Till Laurent Duperval wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > =_974303478-6208-1214 > Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii > > HI, > > I've had less th

[expert] Printer setup woes

2000-11-15 Thread Laurent Duperval
HI, I've had less than stellar success trying to set up printers in Mandrake 7.1. Maybe someone has some ideas for me: - First off, is it a good idea to use printtool to configure a printer? If not, that may be the source of my problem. - I added a SMB printer and I eventually had to go deep