Re: [gNewSense-users] Printer Setu-Up problem

[Karl Goetz]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 21:05 -0500, Don Parris wrote:
> On Dec 8, 2007 5:55 PM, Karl Goetz <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:37 +0530, arnuld wrote:
>         > I have EPSON LX-300+ dot-matrix printer which works fine on
>         Fedora, Arch
>         > and Debian. I usually got to CUPS web-interface
>         localhost:631 and set-up 
>         > my printer there using root account. on gNS I can't do that.
>         whether root
>         > account is enabled or not, gNS nevr accepts my root
>         user-name/password
>         > combination and throws back the same Pop-up for entering
>         username/password 
>         > again and again.
>         
>         
>         Ubuntu broke cups. The web interface no longer works.
>         
>         
> That's funny.  I just connected an old Okidata ML321 to Ubuntu 7.10
> using the CUPS web interface today.  The only problems I encountered
> were needing to ensure the printer was in the IBM-emulation mode and
> re-connecting the cable afterwards.  We could not get the darned thing
> to print squat until we disconnected and re-connected the cable. 

The version in Ubuntu 6.06 (and therefore gNewSense 1.x) relfects the
problems arnold is having - i havent used the later verisons of ubuntu,
so i cant comment on them.
kk

> 
> And you can manage CUPS printers from the CLI:
> http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Cheers!
> Don
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