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?

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