Problem installing a printer.
I did a search and found a link to a how-to on installing a printer in linux. I installed the hpijs drivers and rebooted. The instructions said to go to localhost:631, but i "could not connect" to it. After rebooting and looking around the printers panel (in konqueror) I found the KDE print wizard. I use fluxbox but figured this would do .... I hit "next" and got to the "Backend Selection" page. On this page, no options are available for me to select, they are all greyed out. How can I fix this to finish setting up my printer?
Also, is there a better way than to use the KDE add printer wizard? It is an HP officejet G55, by the way. |
Be sure cups is installed (which is what you were trying to connect in port 631).
Do this steps: Remove lprng & cups packages. Install cups again (yes, reinstall). Type: chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.cups And: /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start Now follow that guide because Cups should be running :) |
Do I Need to download the cups package? or can I find it somewhere in my system files?
edit: nevermind, I found the package at slackware.com. |
Thank you, I followed the instructions and successfully reinstalled cups. When I typed /etc/rc.d/rc.cups start, it simply returned the line "cups: started scheduler" Is this normal? After this I went into the printer setup wizard, everything went fine until the test page .... the printer doesnt seem to recognize that the computer is sending a test page, even though I get a dialog box that says "test page successfully sent to the printer. wait until printing is complete, then press the OK button."
I'm not sure what is going on here ... |
I got to localhost:631 I've tried printing a test page with no luck. Would it help to maybe use a printer cable and not USB?
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Well the printer must be setup wrong then, it happened to me. Does your printer works with parallel port? If it's be sure to uncommend the lines /sbin/modprobe parport_pc and /sbin/modprobe lp in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to load parallel port support.
EDIT: I've just seen your latest post, I never installed a USB printer under Linux so I'm not sure how to configure using it. |
I just saw this message in localhost:631
"unable to open print file "/var/spool/cups/d00005-001" - Permission denied" I'll try parallel once I find the parallel cable ... |
I'm having similar problems connecting to a shared printer on my WinXP box. I was able to print previously but I noticed last week that print jobs are being held in the CUPS queue. When I try to delete them from the queue it tells me I don't have the permissions to that, even as root. I can delete the printer, however. I wonder if it has to do with CUPS 1.1.22 that I installed from the Oct 31st update. I had 1.1.21 previously and, as I said, there was no problem.
Kent |
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