On Thu 14 Jul 2022 at 11:56:10 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 7/14/22 05:19, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 21:31:24 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 7/13/22 19:27, Brian wrote: > > > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 16:10:56 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 7/13/22 15:14, Brian wrote: > > > > > > On Wed 13 Jul 2022 at 13:21:07 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > [Broken lines mended to give a readable original post.] > > > > > > > > > > > Blame that in tbird. > > > > Yet another part of the compting experience tou are unable to > > > > control? > > > > > > > I give up, the driverless printer cups installs automaticaly > > > > > > > cannot be > > > > > > > deleted and has taken over from the brother drivers that work, > > > > > > > preventing me from using the printer at all. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So how do I disable the driverless junk? Is that a separate > > > > > > > package > > > > > > > that is removable? cups doesn't even offer to disable this > > > > > > > non-working garbage. Thanks for any good clues. > > > > > > Driverless printing is only possible when avahi-daemon is on the > > > > > > system. Your solution is obvious. > > > > > > > > > > > avahi-daemon 0.8-5 is installed. > > > > Is this the avahi-daemon that, in the past, you have characterised as > > > > unfit to be used on a local network and that didn't deserve any of > > > > your disk space. > > > True, but that is all, none of its kin is. And I did find out how to > > > defeat > > > it. But > > > when I went to look, that file has vanished and its still working. > > > > > > So what happened that got /etc/dhcpcd.conf removed? > > > It had a fallback stanza near the bottom that I had edited in > > > the default eth0 config. That finally got rid of the totally bogus > > > 169.xx.yy.zz > > > routing address. Now the file is gone, and its still working. > > Good. > > > > > > > See the ppd driverless attached to > > > > > my > > > > > previous msg it just now made. > > > > > It looks busted to me. > > > > Broken files are best not used. Remove and follow my previos advice. > > > > > > > I have. and cups brings it back automatically on the restart that does. > > > Probably > > > 20 times I've deleted it. Its back before I can look to see if its gone. > > That is cups-browsed doing auto-setup. As far as you are concerned > > that is its sole job. It doesn't do anything else for you or the > > printing system. Therefore: > > > > apt purge cups-browsed > Will that then allow brothers drivers to work normally?
The Brother drivers should work normally with or without purging cups-browsed. > This printer is normally shared to the rest of my network. So > I can fire up geany on any of the other 5 machines here, > make an adjustment to one of the LinuxCNC configuration files, > and print it right from that machine which might be a minutes > walk away in another building. > > Done, all versions of this printer are deleted and stay gone. As predicted! > Ok, it works, sort of. I did have it setup as two printers before > this last cups update a week or so back, one for color photos, > from thick glossy paper from tray 1 (top tray). > And another copy setup to do fast utility duplexed printing > from tray 2, the bottom tray, which can hold 300 sheets of 22 lb. Any CUPS update on bullseye would be for a secuity issue only. There shouldn't be any change in its basic operation. > But now the "add printer" just re-configures the existing one. "Add" > does not make a new profile. I need both profiles to show up in both > firefox's, print dialog, and in the system dialog if you scroll all the > way down in the FF dialog and select that instead. > > How can is this done with this new cups? Just specify a new destination name: XXX instead of AAA. Keep the same URI (the connection). -- Brian.
