On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 03:21, Michael Olds wrote: > I'm catching up to this one late, and am being thrown off by the very start. > > I have a DeskJet 960C > > I am pretty sure it's hooked up right as it was running under RedHat > (meaning I have PnP turned off in the BIOS) and during one point in playing > around tonight I saw that something knew the printer was there.(don't ask, > I've been trying to find it again and can't). > > I have installed the foomatic.bin and foomatic.db and cupsys and it's > depends > and have generated and saved in /usr/share/cups/model/HP-DeskJet`.ppd > > But when I type lpadmin in the terminal I get unknown command and when I use > the web interface I am thrown by the first three questions (I think I > understand what follows!): > Name: what name? Is that just an I make it up name? DeskJet 960C? Yep, doesn't matter one bit. Choose what you find descriptive for your printer
> The Help > file says the helpful wizzard will walk you through this and you just answer > a few obvious questions! Not obvious to me. > Locatin: what location? and if this is the /dev/lp or lp0 or lp1 can I just > go and assign that? Hasn't got any meaning at all. Again, it's just a description field. I found that confusing too > Description I can guess is nothing important. Nope. > > Thanks for any help and sorry if this was already covered. I would like to > get a printer hooked up to the rig. > That's about all the steps i did except for the cupsomatic perl script that i installed in /usr/lib/cups/filter I followed these instructions: http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html And that was all i needed to get it work properly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
