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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: setting up cups on gentoo
From:       Sebastian Werner <sebastian () werner-productions ! de>
Date:       2001-05-27 2:04:01
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Never, I have to use cups for a network-printer sorry. My local connection 
works... Point one of your list is the same as my experience. I don't know 
why but it works ;-)

Sebastian

Am Sonntag, 27. Mai 2001 03:01 schrieben Sie:
> Making some improvements.
>
> 1) I don't understand why, but installation of the gimp-print product
> cleared up some of the problem.  After restarting cups and after adding
> another printer (same entries except name) with lpadmin, the lpadmin panels
> now showed that I had a printer with no defined connection.  One of the
> other buttons allowed me to reenter the definitions (the same as before),
> and viola! the printer worked.
>
> 2) Not totally - the lpadmin panels still think that I have no printers
> defined when I select the printers button!
>
> 3) I added a printer with a smb://host/name definition (just like on
> Sybil), but printing to that destination does not work.
>
>
> On Sat, 26 May 2001 12:24:27 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2001 19:55:49 +0200 Sebastian Werner
> >
> > <sebastian@werner-productions.de> wrote:
> > > I have played with cups some time, i have detected that it do not work
> >
> > if
> >
> > > you
> > > don't have loaded all the modules: parport, parport_pc, lp
> >
> > 	all these are loaded
> >
> > > Then i have started konquerer with http://localhost:631 and setup my
> > > canon
> > > bjc 4300. I use the gimp-print package as driver. With the driver from
> > > linux-printing.org (without stp) i don't have success. Don't know why.
> >
> > 	details on the gimp-print package?
> >
> > > Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 18:35 schrieben Sie:
> > > > On Sat, 26 May 2001 09:05:52 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Do we have any cups experts in the group?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to get cups to work on my gentoo distro - no automatic
> > >
> > > stuff
> > >
> > > > > like coas or webmin available.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've done the RTFM on the cups site several times, but no joy yet
> > > > >
> > > > > Here's what I've done
> > > > >
> > > > > cups installed and the daemon comes up ok.  ghostscript and
> >
> > enscript
> >
> > > are
> > >
> > > > > also installed.
> > > > >
> > > > > per instructions on the cups site
> > > > >  	1) setup /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic (755)
> > > > > 	2) setup /usr/local/bin/foomatic-gswrapper (755) (this is in my
> > >
> > > $PATH)
> > >
> > > > > 	3) generated and added the appropriate Canon-BJC-610.....ppd file
> > > > > 	3) /etc/rc.d/init.d/cupsd start (this is the correct script on my
> > > > > system)
> > > > > 	4) lpadmin (fails with client error)
> > > > > 	5) http://localhost:631/admin
> > > > > 		brings up login screen (used root)
> > > > > 		did add printer dialog, prompts for  parport, Canon and the .ppd
> > >
> > > file
> > >
> > > > > 			I added
> > > > > 		says added lp0
> > > > > 		but manage printers says no printers!
> > > > > 	6) cat xyz | lpr -Plp0 puts a file in /var/spool/cups but no
> > >
> > > printing
> > >
> > > > > 	7) After turning on debugging messages, /var/log/cups/error_log
> >
> > says
> >
> > > > > (among other things)
> > > > > 		Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 10!
> > > > > 		It doesn't seem to enter the cupsomatic script; therefor, no
> > >
> > > conversion
> > >
> > > > > 	8) All of the ***.conf files in /etc/cups look similar to what I
> > >
> > > have on
> > >
> > > > > 		Sybil,where the printer works.
> > > >
> > > > More info.  lpadmin logs the following errors
> > > >
> > > > 	lpadmin -dlp0 -vparallel:/dev/lp0 -mCanon-BJC-610-bjc610a0.upp.ppd
> >
> > -E
> >
> > > > 		(Canon...ppd is in /usr/share/cups/model (per instructions))
> > > >
> > > > 	set_default(3, ipp://localhost/printers/lp0)
> > > > 	set_default: resource name '/printers/lp0' no good!
> > > >  	send_ipp_error(3, 406)
> > > >  	Sending error: client-error-not-found
> > > >
> > > > What do I do to get the resource name to be recognized?


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